This state was established as a territory by Millard Fillmore in 1853, and that year saw the origin of its largest city when the Denny Party incorporated their settlement on Elliott Bay.
An island which is now part of this US state was the site of settler Lyman Cutlar's shooting of a neighbor's livestock, leading to the so-called "Pig War" between Great Britain and the US. This state was established as a territory by Millard Fillmore in 1853, and that year saw the origin of its largest city when the Denny Party incorporated their settlement on Elliott Bay. That city was named after a chief of the Duwamish and Suquamish Tribes. Becoming the 42nd state in 1889, along with the two Dakotas and Montana, FTP name this Pacific Northwest state with capital at Olympia.
An island which is now part of this US state was the site of settler Lyman Cutlar's shooting of a neighbor's livestock, leading to the so-called "Pig War" between Great Britain and the US.
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