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1870
  • Population of King County is 2,120.
1873
  • Board of County Commissioners create the office of "overseer of the poor."
1876
  • King County Seal is used for the first time in the commissioners' records.
1877
  • The Sisters of Providence convert a two-story frame house into the county hospital at the county's poor farm in the Duwamish Valley.

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Updated: July 11, 2002

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