Hotels in Seattle
There are numerous areas in Seattle that require accommodation in the city for short term accommodation. Some tourists may want to see the culture the history the tourism the tourist attractions of the city. Some tourist may need a hotel that has good scenery good locations and good quality. Some may want a hotel that has a good status. Some may want a hotel that has a good access to parking and to tourist attractions of the city. Some tourists or visitors to the city may want a hotel that is in or near the city.
Seattle is the largest city by population in the USA state of Washington and the Northwestern USA. The encompassing Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metropolitan statistical area is the 15th largest in the USA, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest. A port city, it is located in the western part of the state between Puget Sound, an arm of the Pacific Ocean, and Lake Washington about 96 miles south of the Canada – United States border. A major economic, cultural and educational center in the region, Seattle is the county seat of King County.
The Seattle area has been inhabited for at least 4,000 years, but European settlement began only in the mid-19th century. The first permanent white settlers—Arthur A. Denny and those subsequently known as the Denny Party—arrived November 13, 1851. Early settlements in the area were called "New York-Alki" ("Alki" meaning by and by in the local Chinook Jargon) and Duwamps. In 1853, Doc Maynard suggested that the main settlement be renamed "Seattle," an anglicized rendition of the name of Sealth, the chief of the two local tribes.
From 1869 until 1982, Seattle was known as the Queen City. Seattle's current official nickname is the "Emerald City", the result of a contest held in the early 1980s; the reference is to the lush evergreen trees in the surrounding area. Seattle is also referred to informally as the Gateway to Alaska,Rain City, and Jet City, the latter from the local influence of Boeing. Seattle residents are known as Seattleites.
Seattle
has a history of boom and bust cycles, common to cities near large areas of natural
and mineral resources. Seattle has several times risen as a company town or through
economic specialization, then gone into precipitous decline, but it has typically
used those periods to successfully rebuild infrastructure.
The Seattle Central
Library, designed by OMA
The first such boom, covering the early years of the city, was fueled by the lumber industry. (During this period the road now known as Yesler Way was nicknamed "Skid Road" after the timber skidding down the hill to Henry Yesler's sawmill. The term later entered the wider American vocabulary as Skid Row.) This boom was followed by the construction of an Olmsted-designed park system.
The second and most dramatic boom was the direct result of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896, which ended (for Seattle) the national depression that had begun with the Panic of 1893. On July 14, 1897, the SS Portland docked with its famed ton of gold, and Seattle became the main transport and supply point for those heading north. The boom lasted well into the early part of the 20th century and funded many new Seattle companies and products. Finance company Washington Mutual was founded in 1889, in an attempt to save Seattle's economy after the Great Seattle fire. In 1907, 19 year old James E. Casey borrowed $100 from a friend and founded the American Messenger Company (later UPS). Other Seattle companies founded during this period include Nordstrom and Eddie Bauer.
Next
came the shipbuilding boom in the early part of the 20th century, followed by
the unused city development plan of Virgil Bogue. Seattle was the major point
of departure during World War II for troops heading to the North Pacific, and
Boeing manufactured many of the war's bombers.
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