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…