Whatcom Historical Society Begun...

Whatcom Historical Society

Begun in Minnesota in February, 1870 the Northern Pacific Railway became the first railroad to cros the northern tier of western states to the Pacific Coast, and the inferior of the nation's transcontinental railroad lines.

Construct in a less degree than a federal charter signed by dint of President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 the Northern Pacific received land grants in answer for building through mostly undevelop territory in North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington upon its way west to Puget good After much competition between coastal cities of the like kind as Tacoma, Seattle and Fairhaven to become the railroad's western terminal, the Northern Pacific