Jesse Tinsley

The two-story building at Argonne Road and East Dalton Avenue in Millwood was built by George Brown in 1925 to house a pharmacy. Elbert Tiffin, a longtime druggist with locations in Spokane and around the region, took over the storefront. The Tiffin Pharmacy would eventually be called the Millwood Pharmacy after the town, incorporated in 1928, that grew up around the Inland Empire Paper Company mill across the street.

Friendships forged in military service have often led veterans to form fraternal groups. Two national examples are the Veterans of Foreign Wars, formed in 1898 for the veterans of the Spanish-American War, and the American Legion, formed in 1919 for the veterans returning from World War I.

Only a few months before the Great Fire of 1889, Washington Water Power – now called Avista – was formed by a group of Spokane businessmen to make electricity from the Spokane River.

Armistice Day in 1930 brought a massive crowd to downtown Spokane to see the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln statue at Main Avenue and Monroe Street. It had been a long time coming.

The corner of Sprague Avenue and Park Road was home to early tire factories until the 1920s, then was followed by a business combining war and peas.

In 1940, the people of the United States were hearing reports of devastating German attacks on Britain and looking for ways to send relief. It was a year before there would be direct U.S. involvement in Europe.

Two miles north of downtown Spokane and a few blocks off of Division Street, the area of Corbin Park was largely undeveloped in the 1880s and was used by the Washington and Idaho Fair Association for an annual fair and for horse racing.

At the turn of the 20th century, Spokane was booming and public schools were bursting at the seams. Also growing were the number of students, because of developmental delays or disabilities, assigned to “special classes.” The Spokane school district, organized in 1899, built the first school for special classes, the Eugene Field School, in 1902 at the defunct Spokane College in the area of what is now Kendall Yards.