Editing Issaquah, Washington (section)

==History==
[[Image:Issaquah miners homes 1913.jpg|thumb|left|Coal miners' homes in Issaquah, 1913]]{{More citations needed|section|date=April 2023}}
"Issaquah" is an anglicization of the Southern [[Lushootseed]] placename /sqʷáxʷ/, meaning either "the sound of birds", "snake", or "little stream". "Squak Valley", an older name for the area, also derives from this same Native American name.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.issaquahchamber.com/about-issaquah/community-and-history
|title=A Diverse and Colorful History
|publisher=Issaquah Chamber of Commerce
|access-date=June 24, 2007
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325234404/http://www.issaquahchamber.com/about-issaquah/community-and-history
|archive-date=March 25, 2012
|url-status=dead
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4195
|title=Gilman (later Issaquah) incorporates on April 29, 1892
|first=Alan J.
|last=Stein
|date=June 16, 2003
|work=[[HistoryLink]]
|access-date=June 21, 2011
}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Bright |first= William |title= Native American Placenames of the United States |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=5XfxzCm1qa4C&pg=PA187 |access-date=January 29, 2023 |year= 2004 |publisher= University of Oklahoma Press |page= 187|isbn= 978-0-8061-3598-4 }}</ref>

In September 1885, the then-unincorporated area was the scene of an [[Attack on Squak Valley Chinese laborers, 1885|attack on Chinese laborers]] who had come to pick [[hops]] from local fields.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Liestman |first=Daniel |date=1999 |title=Horizontal Inter-Ethnic Relations: Chinese and American Indians in the Nineteenth-Century American West |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/971376 |journal=The Western Historical Quarterly |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=340 |doi=10.2307/971376 |jstor=971376 |issn=0043-3810|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Three of the laborers died from gunshot wounds; seven attackers were indicted, but they were later acquitted or charges were dropped.<ref name=":1" />{{Dubious|date=January 2024|reason=In addition to charged statements (“without any [recourse] whatsoever”), this claim is significant enough to warrant a clear, direct citation. It is not readily found in the city’s official website history page or in top results of a Google search.}}

Shortly after becoming known as Squak, the town was briefly renamed to Gilman, an homage to Daniel Hunt Gilman, who brought railways to the town.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Issaquah History {{!}} Issaquah, WA - Official Website |url=https://www.issaquahwa.gov/93/History |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=www.issaquahwa.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Newman |first=Joan |date=2012-03-03 |title=Issaquah's roots revisited: Area holds a deep history |url=https://www.issaquahreporter.com/news/issaquahs-roots-revisited-area-holds-a-deep-history/ |access-date=2024-03-19 |website=Issaquah Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref>

The city was officially incorporated by the Washington State legislature on April 29, 1892.<ref name=":0" /> Initially a small mining town, the city has changed noticeably both in its appearance and economic focus. Issaquah was originally developed to service the mining industry (on the two nearby mountains that now lend their names to the [[Cougar/Squak Corridor Park]]). As the mining deposits neared depletion in the late 1890s, other companies started to realize Issaquah's potential to support a lucrative lumber business. These companies exported timber from Issaquah and other small, local towns to Seattle and larger, rapidly growing communities throughout western Washington. These early boom industries, however, faded into a period of relative quiet by the time of the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]].

The town's industries remained similar through most of the twentieth century, with [[Boeing]] providing the majority of employment in the area. [[Microsoft]] and other technological industries moved into [[Redmond, Washington|Redmond]] and other cities in the area, and later established operations in Issaquah itself.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}} In June 1996, [[Costco]] moved its global headquarters to Issaquah from nearby [[Kirkland, Washington|Kirkland]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Buck |first1=Richard |last2=Lopez Williams |first2=Sarah |date=March 17, 1996 |title=The East Rises |page=A1 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref>