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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Northern Pacific Railroad 20170807

Tacoma. Siting in the years before the arrival of the Transcontinental Railroad tacoma was not dissimilar from most of the other small communities around puget sound. The population presence was predominantly native american. By the end of the19th century, coming over the oregon trail and then some by sea, small little villages of americans and europeans arrived mostly along. The shoreline. That was because the primary purpose here for people that were settling was cutting timber and milling timber. That was then sent down to san francisco. So that prompted a lot of entrepreneurs and small investors and adventurers to come up and begin to build cities. Seattle, bellingham, port townsend, olympia, all were small or smallish communities of 50 to a few hundredpeople prior to the arrival of the transcontinental. At the conclusion of the civil war and the announcement that the railroad was coming, every community hoped that they would be the terminal city, that they would be chosen for the

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