Talk:Great Seattle Fire

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The footnotes don't seem to refer anywhere. --Lukobe 05:52, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, somebody removed them without explaining why. I've restored them. --Lukobe 05:52, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Murray Morgan

There is a very circumstantial description of the firefighting efforts in Murray Morgan's Skid Road (1951, 1960, and I believe there was a later edition). Whoever is working on the article might want to get hold of a copy; they'd find a lot to add. - Jmabel | Talk 05:36, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Sources

James Warren's The Day Seattle Burned is likely the best single recent source for information on the fire and the aftermath. Information on rebuilding is found in Ochsner and Andersen's book, Distant Corner. Chesterct (talk) 23:28, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Greatness

Was it really that great?208.119.114.20 (talk) 19:02, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

From Seattle's point of view, yes. Compared to Chicago or San Francisco, not much acreage. But as percentage of urban core, and rebuilding afterwards, it is justified. There are many "great fires" so named because they are historical landmarks in a city's development. GeeBee60 (talk) 13:55, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

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Good source on what was built right after the fire

Rob Ketcherside just passed this to me: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. January 01, 1890, Page 13, Image 13 lists Seattle structures built in 1889, July-December. It includes a list of wharves built after the fire. - Jmabel | Talk 15:38, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Newspapers.com version with garbled OCR for easier citations later on. SounderBruce 02:41, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

For those more attuned to the event -

Semi-recent local news article out of Lewis County (Washington) about Tenino sandstone - [1] - and it's connection to the rebuild of the city. The article does not go into any great depth and connection, but I would like to see local towns and businesses not forgotten who helped build Seattle back up.

Not familiar enough with the fire, so I leave this as motivation for others who are!

Shortiefourten (talk) 20:58, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Citation

In the paragraph Reconstruction and recovery the first paragraph is missing a citation, and I do think there should be at least one in every paragraph. Kikic123 (talk) 15:29, 17 October 2019 (UTC)