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The Seattle Fire

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The young village was built around the lumber and salmon trade during the 1860’s and 1870’s. The small village saw a massive boom in population, exploding to over 40,000 people during the 1880’s. Sadly, near the end of the prosperous decade, a fire on June 6 1889 burned Pioneer Square to the ground. Learning its lesson the hard way, Seattle rebuilt the town Square out of brick and stone. The village saw a prosperous time after the rebuilding of the Square until about 1893. It was then that a national economic plague came down hard on the town. However, it was only a short four years later that the Klondike gold rush ushered in a new time of growth and prosperity.



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