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Group: Chalcolithic Anatolian culture
People: Demetrius I
Topic: Great Ellensburg Fire
Location: Dublin (Baile átha Cliath) Dublin Ireland

Great Ellensburg Fire

Years: 1889 - 1889

The Great Ellensburg Fire, also known as the Independence Day Fire, is a fire that destroys homes and the business district of Ellensburg on July 4-5, 1889, during the same summer that major fires damage Spokane, Vancouver, and Seattle, all major cities in the Washington Territory.

"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."

—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)