Waterfront Oral History Project records 1926-2006 2006.
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Puget Sound Pulp and Timber Co.
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Western Washington University. Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
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On June 10, 1999 a gas pipeline, operated by Olympic Pipe Line, burst and dumped almost 230,000 gallons of fuel into nearby Whatcom Creek in the heart of Bellingham, Washington. The fuel flowed 1 1/2 miles downstream before being accidentally ignited by two ten year old boys playing with fireworks near the creek. Wade King and Stephen Tsiorvas died the following day from severe burns. Eighteen year old flyfisherman, Liam Wood, also died along the creek due to fume inhalation and drowning. The fi...
Western Washington University. Dept. of History.
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Georgia-Pacific Corporation. Bellingham Division
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In 1925, Washington state businessman Ossian Anderson purchased a mill site on Bellingham's downtown waterfront, which operated as the Puget Sound Pulp and Timber Co. for the next four decades. In 1963, the Atlanta-based Georgia-Pacific Corporation (GP) acquired the site and expanded to include a chemical plant and research lab. A great deal of innovation took place at the Bellingham mill throughout the twentieth century, and the mill was a major employer in Bellingham. ...
Albright, David
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Waterfront Oral History Project
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The Waterfront Oral History Project was a collaborative effort between Western Washington University's Department of History and the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies. In 2006, students in Professor Chris Friday's History 400 class generated oral histories from interviews with eighteen current and former employees of the Georgia-Pacific Corporation's (GP) pulp mill in Bellingham, Washington. In 1925, Washington state businessman and mill owner, Ossian Anderson, acquir...
