| 1889 | Washington Proclaimed the 42nd State in the United States. |
| 1890 | Clallam County seat "moved" from New Dungeness to Pt Angeles. |
| 1891 | Grand Opening of Pt Angeles Opera House on Front Street. |
| | Steam Driven Electric Plant Lights up the Town. |
| 1892 | Catholic Church at 2nd & Lincoln purchased to use as Clallam County Courthouse. |
| 1893 | 100 foot logs from Pt Angeles cut by Hall & Bishop Logging Co of Gettysburg to be used for the entrance of the World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. The City of PA formed a municipal electric utlity in July. (This makes it the 4th oldest utility on the West Coast). |
| 1894 | The Pt Angeles Townsite Reserve opens homesteading. Town votes bonds to build 3 schools. |
| 1895 | US Navy’s Pacific Fleet under Beardslee come to Pt Angeles for summer maneuvers. First Clallam County Fair welcomes the Fleet. |
| 1896 | Sequim Prairie Ditch celebrates its irrigation project. (This would become the Sequim Irrigation Festival.) |
| 1897 | Olympic National Forest set aside by President Grover Cleveland. |
| 1898 | Phone service established by CJ Farmer so he can be connected to town when high tide covers the road to his cannery. |
| 1899 | The main topic of discussin’ is exactly when the new century turns. |
| 1900 | Dr Donald McGillivray renovates the Olympic Hotel as a hospital and constructs the Lee Hotel in downtown PA. He relocates from Canada; fellow physicians partner with him on the project. His career will span 51 years in Pt Angeles. |
| 1901 | Gate City Orchestra hosts a Thanksgiving Masquerade Ball attended by 300. |
| 1902 | Angeles Brewing & Malting opens on Tumwater Creek, the first one in Clallam County. |
| 1903 | Pt Angeles Pacific Railroad lays track in Tumwater Valley. |
| 1904 | The Steamer "Clallam" sinks between New Dungeness and Smith Island, losing 55 lives. Rules are enacted for passenger protection on inland waters. |
| 1905 | Long Distance Telephone service between Sequim and PA established. |
| 1906 | A 2 cylinder Buick becomes the first car in Clallam County, owned by James H Gibson. |
| 1907 | Hotel Sinclair built by Joseph Keeler in central Sequim. |
| 1908 | "Lifesaving Service" builds rescue station near Neah Bay on Waadah Island. |
| 1909 | 615,000 Acres of the Olympic Peninsula are commemorated by Mount Olympus National Monument. |
| 1910 | A power dam is begun on the Elwha River by Olympic Power Company to serve the region from Bremerton to Cape Flattery. |
| 1911 | The Sequim Press begins publishing a small weekly newspaper. |
| 1912 | World Class Wilderness Spa built at SolDuc by Michael Earles. |
| 1913 | International Workers of the World attempt to unionize railway workers; are escorted out of town on the steamer "Iroquois". |
| 1914 | Puget Sound Mill & Timber Co, the largest mill in Washington, cuts its first lumber at Pt Angeles; downtown streets are raised and filled; and cows are no longer allowed to graze in city streets. |
| 1915 | Opening ceremony for new 2-story brick courthouse at Fourth & Lincoln officiated by Naval Elks Lodge. |
| 1916 | Pt Angeles Evening News formed by combining AA Smith’s Olympic-tribune and EB Webster’s Olympic-Leader. |
| 1917 | US enters WWI; Army forms a Spruce Production Division to harvest spruce for was planes and to "offset wobbly influence". |
| 1918 | Spruce Division builds 65 miles of rail lines in Clallam County; a mill is built at Ennis Creek’s mouth. |
| 1919 | Crescent Boxboard plant completed by Paraffine Company at Pt Angeles harbor. |
| 1920 | Washington Pulp and Paper Co, subsidiary of Zellerbach, starts producing in their new plant on Ediz Hook. |
| 1921 | "Big Blow" drops 5 million board feet of timber; Forks isolated from outside world for several days. |
| 1922 | Port District created. |
| 1923 | Ku Klux Klan Klavern holds meetings at Masonic Temple in Pt Angeles. |
| 1924 | Earthquake in Japan raises prices of lumber and shipping at the port. |
| 1925 | Forks business district destroyed by fire. |
| 1926 | At a cost of $100,000, Pier 1 is completed with lumber from Charles Nelson Mill; hammerhead crane erected on the dock. |
| 1927 | Paraffine and Crown Zellerbach merge, creating Fibreboard Products Corp. Glines Dam on upper Elwha powers Washington Pulp and Paper Co mill. |
| 1928 | Beacon Bill conducts anuual "blackmail" campaign for charity in the Pt Angeles Evening News. |
| 1929 | Spruce Division mill dismantled. Charles Nelson Mill closes. |
| 1930 | Crescent Logging lays off 500 workers. |
| 1931 | Unemployment office opens in Pt Angeles. Crown Z cuts back its work week. |
| 1932 | St Andrew’s Episcopal Church offers a meal a day to the needy; banks will not cash county warrants; surplus flour distributed by Red Cross. |
| 1933 | Pt Angeles Cooperative Creamery exchanges scrip certificates for county warrants. |
| 1934 | Studebaker sedan won by Wilbur Hughto for catching 27 lb 6 oz salmon, creating first Pt Angeles Salmon Derby. |
| 1935 | Washington State issues tax tokens andimposes two percent retail sales tax. |
| 1936 | Eighth Street Bridge opens to traffic. |
| 1937 | FDR visits Clallam County; promises support of Olympic National Park. |
| 1938 | ONP officially established. |
| 1939 | Embezzlement scandal convicts the county treasurer and his accomplices. |
| 1940 | Race Street’s Civic Stadium dedicated. |
| 1941 | US enters WWII after Pearl Harbor and first draftees from Clallam County go into the Army. |
| 1942 | US Army occupies Lincoln Park; nine Jefferson County families are evacuated to detention camps; Army camps established at Ennis Creek and at Fifth St Bluff. |
| 1943 | First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt watches "Red Alder" barge launch. Wooden barges constructed by Olympic Shipbuilders on former Nelson Mill site. |
| 1944 | D Day; Clallam County’s military presence abates. |
| 1945 | Japanese incendiary bomb is carried to Oregon beach by hydrogen-filled balloon, killing five picnickers and former PA woman. |
| 1946 | Sequim annexes surrounding farms. |
| 1947 | Freighter Diamond Knot collides with shop carrying three and a half million worth of salmon, then sinks off Pt Angeles in the Strait of Jean de Fuca. |
| 1948 | Cape Flattery gets seismograph station to locate Peninsula earthquakes. |
| 1949 | Bonneville Power Administration completes its line to Pt Angeles substation. (and I was born in Seattle!) |
| 1950 | January weather cited worst in 50 years by weatherman with frostbitten ear. |
| 1951 | Forks evacuated; forest fire destroying 35,000 acres of timber , mills, log equipment and homes is stopped before reaching town. |
| 1952 | Seven million dollar Voice of America transmitter to go into Dungeness area, says US State Department. |
| 1953 | Pacific Coast Area, Queets Corridor, and Bogachiel strip added to Olympic National Park. |
| 1954 | Tunnel costing $250,000 is completed on Heart o the Hills Highway to Hurricane Ridge. |
| 1955 | Tanker trucks are used by milk producers to ship to Angeles Cooperative Creamery, rather than milk cans. |
| 1956 | ATT completes 750 mile cable to its new Angeles Point Station from Ketchikan, Alaska. |
| 1957 | Clallam County Historical Society, with National Park Service, hold opening ceremonies for the Pioner Memorial Museum and Visitor Center at Port Angeles. |
| 1958 | Merrill & Ring construct mill on Pt Angeles harbor in former Nelson site. |
| 1959 | Hood Canal Floating Bridge construction started. Coho Ferry starts Victoria/Pt Angeles run. |
| 1960 | Settlers who want to settle in Galapagos come to Port Angeles for outfitting before going to sea. |
| 1961 | Peninsula Colleges is begun on the PAHS campus. |
| 1962 | Celebration of the Centennial of Victor Smith’s Founding of Pt Angeles is held. |
| 1963 | The whole town closes in mourning for President Kennedy. |
| 1964 | Chief Jacob Whitefeather of the Jamestown Klallam tribe dies. |
| 1965 | Campus built for Peninsula College. |
| 1966 | 3000 Sequim inquiries are lodged in one week after national column features Sequim. |
| 1967 | Carlsborg mill closes. |
| 1968 | Coast Guard cutter Winona returns from Vietnam duty. |
| 1969 | Bill Fairchild, co-pilot and 8 passengers perish on take-off from Clallam County Airport. (now Fairchild International). |
| 1970 | Dominion Terrace, senior housing townhomes, completed in Sequim. |
| 1971 | Miller Peninsula is proposed site for nuclear power plant. |
| 1972 | 10,085 TV sets in the county. |
| 1973 | Marine research lab built on Washington Harbor by Battelle-Northwest. |
| 1974 | Indian fishing treaty rights decision by Fed Judge George Boldt. |
| 1975 | No nuclear site on Miller Peninsula decision made. |
| 1976 | Northern Tier Pipeline Co applies for permits to build oil port in PA and storage at Green Point. |
| 1977 | l861 McAlmond House at Dungeness, oldest frame building in the county, listed on Historic Register. Manis Mastodon remains found in Sequim. |
| 1978 | Lower Elwha Band of Klallam Indians gets new tribal offices. |
| 1979 | Land of the Sinking Bridge, as west half of Hood Canal Bridge goes down in Valentine’s Day storm. |
| 1980 | New Courthouse for Clallam County. New City Pier for Port Angeles. Qui Si Sana Lodge renovated and renamed Camp David Junior. |
| 1981 | Oldest known wooden tool excavated at Manis Mastodon site near Sequim. Olympic National Park is designated a "World Heritage Park" by the United Nations. |
| 1982 | Floating Bridge reopens on Hood Canal as residents argue over tolls. |
| 1983 | Northern Tier Pipeline abandons plans for an oil port here. |
| 1984 | Olympic Gold won by Matt Dryke of Sequim. Gold Medal in skeet shooting. |
| 1985 | First AIDS case reported by Health Department in our county. |
| 1986 | Seafarm of Norway begins Pt Angeles harbor fish farming. |
| 1987 | New City Hall complex dedicated by Pt Angeles. |
| 1988 | Pt Angeles unveils new city bell designed by Duncan McKiernan as it celebrates the Washington State Centennial. |
| 1989 | Carrie Millet opens Fifth Avenue Real Estate on N Fifth Avenue in Sequim. |
| 1990 | Olympic Peninsula bicyclists club was formed. Port Angeles turns 200 years old on June 13. Sequim grads earn over $230,000 in scholarships. Fifth Avenue Real Estate becomes RE/MAX Fifth Avenue in Sequim. |
| 1991 | City of Sequim starts recycling program. |
| 1992 | 100th anniversary of the Dungenesss Schoolhouse. |
| 1993 | Sequim gas prices set new low record at 109.9 per gallon. Costco opens September 15. |
| 1994 | Olympic Coast Marine Sanctuary is designated. JCPenney moves from Port Angeles to Sequim. 137 year old New Dungeness Lighthouse Station transferred to the New Dungeness Chapter of the US Light House Society by the US Coast Guard. Seven Cedars Casino opens. |
| 1995 | 100th anniversary of the Sequim Irrigation Festival. |
| 1996 | St Luke's Church moved from Sequim Avenue to Second Avenue. |
| 1997 | Sequim's First Annual Lavender Festival. Beginning of Port Angeles downtown reviatalization including brick
pavers in streets and sidewalks. |
| 1998 | Completion of PA downtown revitalization. Carlsborg driving range opens on Highway 101 just west of Costco. |
| 1999 | Sequim Bypass is finally operational. Merchants complain of lost business and put up signs at each end. |
| 2000 | Millenium Celebrations. |
| 2001 | Sequim opens new skatepark. Elk statues are placed at each end of Sequim on the new bypass. My grandson calls them his "chocolate mooses". |
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