The Baima House Still Stands Newcastle's Hidden Voices Knees
14 Focus MARCH 20, 2020 MARCH 20, 2020 Focus 15 When Coal Was King A look back at Newport’s Regional History Knees Deep in Coal SHANA HUANG Did you know... Reporter Over 10 Million tons of coal was excavated In 1996, a book titled: The Coals of Newcastle: A Hundred Years of Hidden History was published, detailing the city of from the region Newcastle’s unique history. From 1863 to 1870, Seattle was famous throughout the country for a string of bustling coal mining towns from Bellingham to Carbonado. Included in this line of towns was Newcastle, the most prosperous and advanced town of them all. Founded in 1869, Newcastle was created as a coal-mining town, and the abundance and quality of the coal in Newcastle Coal was the first product shipped out of brought about economic growth for Seattle, a city which had been trying to find other products besides lumber and pilings to bring the fledgling port of seattle income to the port. Phillip H. Lewis, a man from Illinois, described how there were coal outcroppings in the area during 1863, and a team quickly assembled in search of coal, consisting of Lewis himself, Edwin Richardson, a teacher who surveyed school land, and old coal mines can still be found on local Josiah Settle, who served as a tree-cutter. After five weeks of combing through the forest, the group found coal outcroppings along trails near coal creek riverbanks, exciting the new businessmen of Seattle. Once their discovery was made, Edwin Richardson named the brook “Stone Coal Creek,” and thus the name “Coal Creek” was forever cemented in history.
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