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Free Boy

A True Story of Slave and Master

By Lorraine McConaghy and Judy Bentley

Free Boy is the story of a 13-year-old slave who escaped from Washington Territory to freedom in Canada on the West's underground railroad.

When James Tilton came to Washington Territory as surveyor-general in the 1850s he...

Warship under Sail

The USS Decatur in the Pacific West

By Lorraine McConaghy

Ordered to join the Pacific Squadron in 1854, the sloop of war Decatur sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, through the Strait of Magellan to Valparaiso, Honolulu, and Puget Sound, then on to San Francisco, Panama, Nicaragua,...

King County Collects

Treasures of Our Historical Organizations

By Lorraine McConaghy, Vicki Stiles, Barbara McMichael, Alice Winship

Sweeping from Seattle to the summit of the Cascades, King County covers a varied slice of land and people. King County Collects tells their stories through historic photos combined with color photos of artifacts from...