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n abandoned coal mine lies under the surface just above Bellingham Bay, near where Chrysalis Inn & Spa sits today. It's all that is left of the first coal mine in Whatcom County, begun in 1853 by William Pattle and some well-to-do partners.
dmund C. Fitzhugh, a lawyer and coal mine manager, arrived at Sehome in 1854, instantly becoming Washington Territory's largest employer, at Bellingham Bay Coal Co.
Big trees, fertile soil, mountains of minerals and waters rich with life were the natural resources that made the cities by Bellingham Bay percolate.
The first European settlers to take root in Bellingham Bay, Henry Roeder and Russell Peabody, arrived in a canoe powered by two Lummi Indian guides in 1852.
Theresa Eldridge, the first white woman on Bellingham Bay, left Ireland in 1850 during the Great Potato Famine. When she and her husband, Edward, and their tiny daughter, Isabella, arrived here in 1853, she must have hungered to get her hands into soil that could feed her new family. But first, those trees had to go.
oe Bertero, who founded a small farm that became a Bellingham institution, died last April at the age of 96. Born in San Francisco, Bertero lived much of his early life in Italy before moving to Whatcom County in 1925. He and his wife, Ann, started Joe's Garden about two years later.
he history of local radio started when the lives of three men intersected - (Lafayette) Rogan Jones, a broadcasting pioneer; Louis Kessler, founder of "Kessler's Voice of Seattle" (KVOS); and a lawbreaking rumrunner named Roy Olmstead.
hen Beauford Cyril Hemminger became a paperboy for the Daily Reveille 100 years ago, he had six customers on his route. He picked up his papers at Yew and Kentucky streets, then traveled to the top of Yew Street Hill, back down to the foot of Alabama Hill and finally down to James Street to deliver his papers. His pay: $4 a month.
One way to get around in 1918 was to take the Bellingham-Blaine Stage Line. Alex McNair of Blaine ran the service, which was headquartered in the Albany Hotel at Chestnut Street and Cornwall Avenue.
he business core of the town we now call Bellingham has been an undulating center that shifted from place to place, roughly following the veins of transportation.
s pro- and anti-consolidation forces on Bellingham Bay argued over whether to join the futures of Whatcom and Fairhaven, Horace Griggs made his way from Chicago to Seattle.
ome businesses make a name for themselves because they've been around forever. Others base their success on innovation.
f you're going to cut down trees, turn them into lumber and build a house, you're going to need hardware.
t's not four generations of the same family that have owned Fairhaven Pharmacy, which opened in Whatcom County in 1889, it's four generations of delivery boys who have owned the store over the past century.
he historical significance of 1265 Marine Drive, home of Smith Gardens, is nearly as impressive as the family members who have lived on and worked the land for 102 years.