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Making a State: How Washington Became Washington

Making a State: How Washington Became Washington

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How do you make a state?Washington’s answer involved 75 delegates, a six-week constitutional convention and powerful railroads - ribbons of steel that bound the new state together and connected it to the nation’s economy.Washington became the nation’s 42nd state on Nov. 11, 1889. But statehood was not a single moment. It was a process shaped by political ambition, railroad power, constitutional compromise and one consequential missing signature.From a constitution carried across the country by rail to two telegrams announcing statehood, this is the story of how Washington was made.

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