Tent City

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This file appears in: The Great Fire of 1889

In the following weeks after the fire, business returned to the area in temporary tents.

Image L93-18.47 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Art & Culture

This file appears in: The Great Fire of 1889

By Anna Harbine
When the territory of Washington became a state in 1889, the city of Spokane Falls was one of its largest and most successful cities. Attracting wealthy businessmen who had stakes in the nearby Idaho mines, Spokane Falls was a thriving young city…