1890

• Population of King County is 63,989.

• County Commissioners approved funds for a new King County Hospital. The hospital, known as the Georgetown Hospital, is built near the mouth of the Duwamish River.

• County road employees are first county employees given an 8-hour day. They were paid $1.50 per day.

• The steamship Portland docks in Seattle loaded with gold from Alaska's Yukon River. This discovery of gold in Alaska sets off the Klondike Gold Rush and ushers in a period of growth and prosperity for King County.
• First pedestrian/bicycle path opens to public, built on Lake Washington's west shoreline

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