Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA
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Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city in and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Seattle, 31 miles (50 km) northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to the 2010 census. Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third largest in the state. Tacoma also serves as the center of business activity for the South Sound region, which has a population of around 1 million people.
Tacoma adopted its name after the nearby Mount Rainier, originally called Takhoma or Tahoma. It is locally known as the "City of Destiny" because the area was chosen to be the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the late 19th century. The decision of the railroad was influenced by Tacoma's neighboring deep-water harbor, Commencement Bay. By connecting the bay with the railroad, Tacoma's motto became "When rails meet sails." Today, Commencement Bay serves the Port of Tacoma, a center of international trade on the Pacific Coast and Washington State's largest port.
Like most central cities, Tacoma suffered a prolonged decline in the mid-20th century as a result of suburbanization and divestment. Since the 1990s, developments in the downtown core include the University of Washington Tacoma; Tacoma Link, the first modern electric light rail service in the state; the state's highest density of art and history museums; and a restored urban waterfront, the Thea Foss Waterway. Neighborhoods such as the 6th Avenue District have become revitalized.
Tacoma-Pierce County has been named one of the most livable areas in the United States. In 2006, Tacoma was listed as one of the "most walkable" cities in the country. That same year, the women's magazine Self named Tacoma the "Most Sexually Healthy City" in the United States. In contrast, Tacoma was also ranked as the "most stressed-out" city in the country in a 2004 survey.
Tacoma gained notoriety in 1940 for the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which earned the nickname "Galloping Gertie".
History:
The city of Tacoma and surrounding areas were inhabited for thousands of years by American Indians, predominantly the Puyallup people, who lived in settlements on the delta.
In 1852, a Swede named Nicolas Delin constructed a sawmill powered by water on a creek near the head of Commencement Bay, but the small settlement that grew up around it was abandoned during the Indian War of 1855-1856. In 1864, pioneer and postmaster Job Carr, a Civil War veteran and land speculator who hoped to profit from the selection of Commencement Bay as the terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad, built a cabin (a replica of Job Carr's cabin, which also served as Tacoma's first post office, was erected in "Old Town" in 2000 near the original site), and later sold most of his claim to developer Morton M. McCarver (1807–1875), who named his project Tacoma City, derived from the indigenous name for the mountain.
Tacoma was incorporated on November 12, 1875, following the merger of Old Tacoma and New Tacoma on January 7, 1884. Its hopes to be the "City of Destiny" were stimulated by selection in 1873 as the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, thanks to lobbying by McCarver, future mayor John Wilson Sprague, and others. The transcontinental link was effected in 1887, but the railroad built its depot on "New Tacoma", two miles (3 km) south of the Carr-McCarver development. The two communities grew together and joined. The population grew from 1,098 in 1880 to 36,006 in 1890. Rudyard Kipling visited Tacoma in 1889 and said it was "literally staggering under a boom of the boomiest".
George Francis Train was a resident for a few years in the late 19th century. In 1890, he staged a global circumnavigation starting and ending in Tacoma to promote the city. A plaque in downtown Tacoma marks the start and finish line.
In November 1885, white citizens led by then-mayor Jacob Weisbach expelled several hundred Chinese residents peacefully living in the city. As described by the account prepared by the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation, on the morning of November 3, 1885, "several hundred men, led by the mayor and other city officials, evicted the Chinese from their homes, corralled them at 7th Street and Pacific Avenue, marched them to the railway station at Lakeview and forced them aboard the morning train to Portland, Oregon. The next day two Chinese settlements were burned to the ground."
The discovery of gold in the Klondike in 1898 led Tacoma's prominence in the region to be eclipsed by the booming development of Seattle.
A major tragedy marred the end of the 19th century, when a streetcar accident resulted in significant loss of life on July 4, 1900.
Tacoma was briefly (1915-1922) a major destination for big-time automobile racing, with one of the nation's top-rated racing venues located just outside the city limits, at the site of today's Clover Park Technical College.
During a 30-day power shortage in the winter of 1929 and 1930, Tacoma was provided with electricity from the engines of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington.
In 1935, Tacoma received national attention when George Weyerhaeuser, the nine-year-old son of prominent lumber industry executive J.P. Weyerhaeuser, was kidnapped while walking home from school. FBI agents from Portland handled the case, in which payment of a ransom of $200,000 secured release of the victim. Four persons were apprehended and convicted. The last to be released was paroled from McNeil Island in 1963. George Weyerhaeuser went on to become chairman of the Board of the Weyerhaeuser Company.
In 1951, an investigation by a state legislative committee revealed widespread corruption in Tacoma's government, which had been organized commission-style since 1910. Voters approved a mayor and city-manager system in 1952.
Tacoma was featured prominently in the garage rock sound of the mid-1960s with bands including The Wailers and The Sonics. The surf rock band The Ventures were also from Tacoma.
Downtown Tacoma experienced a long decline through the mid-20th century. Harold Moss, later the city's mayor, characterized late 1970s Tacoma as looking "bombed out" like "downtown Beirut" (a reference to the Lebanese Civil War that occurred at that time); "Streets were abandoned, storefronts were abandoned and City Hall was the headstone and Union Station the footstone" on the grave of downtown.
This picture began to change somewhere around 1990. Among the projects associated with the downtown renaissance were the federal courthouse in the former Union Station (1991); the Washington State History Museum (1996), echoing the architecture of Union Station; the adaptation of a group of century-old brick warehouses into the University of Washington Tacoma campus; the numerous privately financed renovation projects near that UW Tacoma campus; the Museum of Glass (2002); the Tacoma Art Museum (2003); and the region's first light-rail line (2003).
The first local referendums in the U.S. on computerized voting occurred in Tacoma in 1982 and 1987. On both occasions, voters rejected 3-1 the computer voting systems that local officials sought to purchase. The campaigns, organized by Eleanora Ballasiotes, a conservative Republican, focused on the vulnerabilities of computers to fraud.
In 1998, Tacoma installed a high-speed fiber optic network throughout the community. The municipally owned power company, Tacoma Power, wired the city.
Ort : Geographische Breite: 47.2528768, Geographische Länge: -122.44429059999999Treffer 1 bis 8 von 8
Nachname, Taufnamen  |
Geburt  |
Personen-Kennung | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Muntz, Lydia | 28 Okt 1909 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I147997 |
| 2 | Fisher, George Frederick | 24 Nov 1917 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I148034 |
| 3 | Lawler, Vivian A. | 15 Mai 1923 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I153039 |
| 4 | Freeth, Lois | 7 Jul 1926 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I261153 |
| 5 | Liening, Reynold Lawrence | 10 Jul 1926 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I200155 |
| 6 | Esnouf, Shirley Ruth | 1935 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I148016 |
| 7 | Fish, Eugene | 5 Dez 1937 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I3505 |
| 8 | Hunt, Richard G. | 1 Apr 1946 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I147984 |
Treffer 1 bis 50 von 59
| Nachname, Taufnamen |
Tod |
Personen-Kennung | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jackson, Florence | 15 Jan 1924 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I219289 |
| 2 | Lynam, James W. | 26 Okt 1931 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I73352 |
| 3 | Mattisdatter, Johanne Marie | 8 Mai 1932 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I257186 |
| 4 | Müller, Katharine Elisabeth | 13 Dez 1933 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I147989 |
| 5 | Kercher, Lydia | 1937 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I18617 |
| 6 | Lynam, Thomas Joseph | 26 Jul 1939 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I73350 |
| 7 | Manz, Johann Heinrich | 17 Jan 1941 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I147988 |
| 8 | Horman, Elsie Vowles | 3 Sep 1948 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I10437 |
| 9 | Fisher, George H. | 23 Feb 1952 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I148035 |
| 10 | Manz, Johann Heinrich | 11 Apr 1955 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I93665 |
| 11 | Lang, Carolina | 8 Feb 1957 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I118865 |
| 12 | Alexandersen, Olaf Alfred | 1 Jan 1959 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I257185 |
| 13 | Doerr, George | 17 Mrz 1961 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I65315 |
| 14 | Junkert, Philip | 21 Mrz 1963 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I113502 |
| 15 | Muntz, Alexander | 19 Sep 1964 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I93661 |
| 16 | Taylor, Elizabeth - wife of | 27 Sep 1965 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I148042 |
| 17 | Fritz, Walter Constantinouis | 1966 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I148024 |
| 18 | Esnouf, Shirley Ruth | 24 Apr 1966 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I148016 |
| 19 | Manz, Maria Katharina | 13 Jun 1967 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I148013 |
| 20 | Kercher, Friedrich E. | 8 Jul 1968 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I18616 |
| 21 | Miller, Mcgreta | 9 Sep 1968 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I37595 |
| 22 | Schmidt, Andrew A. | 26 Aug 1971 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I242917 |
| 23 | Lobe, Paul | 28 Sep 1972 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I76578 |
| 24 | Doehler, Raymond Mathias Frederick | 3 Sep 1973 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I200151 |
| 25 | Krueger, Darrel | 13 Jun 1976 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I231256 |
| 26 | Rau, Katharine | 6 Apr 1978 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I97134 |
| 27 | Vilhauer, Ervin August | 11 Sep 1979 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I107452 |
| 28 | Hunt, Charles Theodore | 6 Jan 1980 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I93666 |
| 29 | Burch, Philip Joel | 3 Dez 1981 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I183450 |
| 30 | Johnson, David E. | 13 Dez 1981 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I108187 |
| 31 | Muntz, Esther | Mrz 1982 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I147973 |
| 32 | Tibbs, Harry Bruce | 11 Jul 1982 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I147976 |
| 33 | Hunt, Richard G. | 17 Dez 1982 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I147984 |
| 34 | Villaescusa, Frank A. | 12 Jan 1984 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I147998 |
| 35 | Muntz, Margaret Barbara | 4 Mrz 1984 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I147975 |
| 36 | Reiswig, Esther | 7 Feb 1986 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I205920 |
| 37 | Roloff, Daniel | 10 Jul 1988 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I77012 |
| 38 | Misener, Louis | 6 Aug 1988 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I92750 |
| 39 | Shonerd, Margaret Elizabeth | 12 Okt 1989 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I200150 |
| 40 | Noble, Marie Beck | 2 Feb 1990 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I77025 |
| 41 | Melhouse, Thora | 6 Okt 1991 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I242918 |
| 42 | Coleman, Leo Charles | 27 Nov 1991 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I52407 |
| 43 | Faul, Adolph | 8 Apr 1992 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I205921 |
| 44 | Fischer, Delores May | 6 Mai 1994 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I42410 |
| 45 | Kercher, Emma M. | 22 Aug 1995 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I18624 |
| 46 | Kirschenmann, Erwin | 18 Jun 1996 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I98089 |
| 47 | Fisher, George Frederick | 30 Jun 1996 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I148034 |
| 48 | McClements, Donald E. | 10 Okt 1996 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I97136 |
| 49 | Clark, Mary | 24 Dez 1997 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I148038 |
| 50 | Doehler, Janice Marie | 24 Mai 1998 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I200154 |
Treffer 1 bis 4 von 4
| Nachname, Taufnamen |
Beerdigung |
Personen-Kennung | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dunker, Olga P. | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I186584 | |
| 2 | Alexandersen, Olaf Alfred | vor 1960 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I257185 |
| 3 | McClements, Donald E. | Okt 1996 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I97136 |
| 4 | Doehler, Janice Marie | 28 Mai 1998 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | I200154 |
Treffer 1 bis 11 von 11
| Familie |
Eheschließung |
Familien-Kennung | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manz / Kercher | 8 Apr 1922 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | F28995 |
| 2 | Webster / Wollenweber | Jun 1922 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | F3918 |
| 3 | Tibbs / Muntz | 19 Feb 1927 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | F48481 |
| 4 | Esnouf / Manz | 27 Nov 1928 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | F39908 |
| 5 | Villaescusa / Muntz | 12 Apr 1931 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | F48487 |
| 6 | Clark / Fritz | 20 Sep 1940 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | F41317 |
| 7 | Clemens / Sackman | 1942 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | F2060 |
| 8 | Liening / Doehler | 11 Sep 1953 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | F66945 |
| 9 | Roloff / Noble | 19 Dez 1959 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | F24109 |
| 10 | Stenberg / Stebbins | 17 Jun 1960 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | F35556 |
| 11 | Sayler / Steele | 6 Jul 1976 | Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA | F14551 |