Located on Bellingham Bay, which had been named by George Vancouver in 1792, for Sir William Bellingham, the Controller of Storekeeper Accounts of the Royal Navy during the Vancouver Expedition. Today, Bellingham is the northernmost city with a population of more than 50,000 people in the contiguous United States.
People of Lummi ancestry continue to live in and around Bellingham Bay, particularly on the nearby Lummi Nation reservation. The first European immigrants reached the area about 1852 when Henry Roeder and Russel Peabody set up a lumber mill at Whatcom, now the northern part of Bellingham.
Whatcom is today's "Old Town" area and was founded with Roeder's Mill in 1852.
Coal was mined in the Bellingham Bay area from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries starting when Henry Roeder's agents discovered coal south of Whatcom Creek, in an area called Sehome, now downtown Bellingham, in 1854.
Sehome was an area of downtown founded with the Sehome Coal Mine in 1854.
In 1858, the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush caused a short lived population growth that established the community.
At about the same time, Dan Harris arrived, claiming a homestead along Padden Creek, and after acquiring surrounding properties, platted the town of Fairhaven in 1883.
Bellingham was further south near Boulevard Park, founded in 1883 and purchased in 1890 by Fairhaven.
Fairhaven was a large commercial district with its own harbor, founded in 1883, by Dan Harris, around his initial homestead on Padden Creek. Bellingham was the site of the Bellingham riots against East Indian (Sikh) immigrant workers in 1907.
In 1889, Pierre Cornwall and an association of investors formed the Bellingham Bay Improvement Company (BBIC).
After a hundred years of extensive mining beneath present-day Bellingham, the last mine closed in 1955. In the early 1890s, three railroad lines arrived, connecting the bay cities to a nationwide market of builders.
In 1898, the utility merged into the Northern Railway and Improvement Company which prompted the Electric Corporation of Boston to purchase a large block of shares. In 1890, Fairhaven developers bought the tiny community of Bellingham.
Bellingham was further south near Boulevard Park, founded in 1883 and purchased in 1890 by Fairhaven.
Whatcom and Sehome merged in 1891 to form New Whatcom (1903 act of the State legislature dropped "New" from the name.) At first, attempts to combine Fairhaven and Whatcom failed, and there was controversy over the name of the proposed new city.
The General Electric Company of New York purchased the Fairhaven Line and New Whatcom street rail line in 1897.
In 1898, the utility merged into the Northern Railway and Improvement Company which prompted the Electric Corporation of Boston to purchase a large block of shares. In 1890, Fairhaven developers bought the tiny community of Bellingham.
The city had a population of 80,885 as of the 2010 census and is estimated to have grown to 92,314 as of 2019. The city of Bellingham was incorporated in 1903 through the consolidation of Bellingham, Whatcom, Fairhaven, and Sehome into the city of Bellingham.
Voting a second time for a final merger of Fairhaven and Whatcom into a single city, the resolution passed with 2163 votes for and 596 against. Bellingham was officially incorporated on December 28, 1903, as a result of the incremental consolidation of the four towns initially situated on the east of Bellingham Bay during the final decade of the 19th Century.
Fairhaven was a large commercial district with its own harbor, founded in 1883, by Dan Harris, around his initial homestead on Padden Creek. Bellingham was the site of the Bellingham riots against East Indian (Sikh) immigrant workers in 1907.
After a hundred years of extensive mining beneath present-day Bellingham, the last mine closed in 1955. In the early 1890s, three railroad lines arrived, connecting the bay cities to a nationwide market of builders.
It will typically follow several days of Arctic northeast outflow winds, and it can melt significant snow accumulations quickly, pushing drainage systems to their limits. ==Demographics== As of 2000, the median income for a household in the city was $32,530, and the median income for a family was $47,196.
Such an event was recorded on November 28, 2006, when air temperatures of were accompanied by winds.
The hottest summer days rarely exceed and the warmest temperature on record is on July 29, 2009.
The city had a population of 80,885 as of the 2010 census and is estimated to have grown to 92,314 as of 2019. The city of Bellingham was incorporated in 1903 through the consolidation of Bellingham, Whatcom, Fairhaven, and Sehome into the city of Bellingham.
About 9.4% of families and 20.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.2% of those under age 18 and 9.0% of those aged 65 or over. ===2010 census=== As of the census of 2010, there were 80,885 people, 34,671 households, and 16,129 families residing in the city.
The gender makeup of the city was 48.8% male and 51.2% female. ==Economy== The mean annual salary of a wage earner in Bellingham is $46,114, which is below the Washington State average of $57,480. In the first quarter of 2017, Bellingham's median home sale was $382,763, compared to the Whatcom County median of $322,779.
The city had a population of 80,885 as of the 2010 census and is estimated to have grown to 92,314 as of 2019. The city of Bellingham was incorporated in 1903 through the consolidation of Bellingham, Whatcom, Fairhaven, and Sehome into the city of Bellingham.
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