During one election of the town, someone made a bumper sticker saying “I’m Frum Hillyurd and I Voat.” Hillyard is still considered the poorest and cheapest part of Spokane. There has been some teasing and stereotyping of the neighborhood. Hillyard has been a working class, immigrant neighborhood of Spokane. Mural in Hillyard celebrating James Hill and Hill's Yard - Market Street In 1968 Great Northern RR was merged with Northern Pacific to become Burlington Northern, and the major yards were moved away, and just local repairs were remainaing. Even with all their hard work, they were failing in business. In the 1960’s, airplanes and locomotives were big competitors. Hillyard’s shops were converted to diesel repair shops. T he years dragged on, and other forms of transportation were taking over. At least 26 R-1 Mallets steam locomotives were built in Hillyard. They built about 1 a month and over the next few years. They built a steam locomotive class called the R-1 Mallet in November, the year 1927. When GNR decided that they needed a fleet of freight locomotives built bigger than any on the west side of the Rocky Mountains so far, and strong enough to haul 5,000 tons of weight across the Mountains and to the east side. The rail yards were especially important in 1927. The City Hall was changed to a fire station. All of Hillyard’s streets (except the main streets of Market and Diamond) got new names given by Spokane. But since the GNR was outside of city limits, it was still its own area outside of Spokane. Hill had died in 1916, so he couldn’t protest. Soon, in September 1924 the vote was 808 to 681, and it was decided that they were to become one town. Spokane had been very interested in the merging of the towns for a while. In 1924, Spokane had grown so big that it was on the verge of colliding with Hillyard’s borders. L87-1.17648-20 - Great Northern Locomotice No 3053 with carpenters at Great Northern Shops, 1920 Most new residents were immigrant laborers and Hillyard started to become more of a Japanese and Italian town. Once the public declined, he argued no more and went back to his regular life.īut when 1916 came around, the railroads had expanded greatly and the population grew to about 4,000 residents. Then he came back to Hillyard and demanded his job back. Three months later word came in that he had suffered amnesia while around the hills of Portland. In June, Jared disappeared as it seemed, and nobody knew were he was. In 1913, Jared Herdlick was the mayor of Hillyard, but not for very long. During labor unrests in 1911, the railroad brought in many immigrant (Italian and Japanese) workers. Most people bailed on the vote and Hillyard remained its own town. James Hill came to town and threatened that if that were to happen, only empty buildings would be left by April 1, 1896. There was talk of incorporating Spokane with Hillyard earlier. Of the 486 residents only 40 were employed, but there was a prediction that the numbers were soon to jump. The Great Northern RR had a 20-stall engine house, paint shop, a car shop, blacksmith shop, boiler shop, machine shop, storehouse, and offices. In 1895, the town had acquired 486 residents, and had a hotel, three churches, and six saloons. L88-408.86 - Aerial view of the Great Northern Shops, Hillyard 1910 - Sonora Smart Dodd and Father's Day.1903 - Public Library Carnegie Building.1887 - Father Cataldo and Gonzaga College.Spokane History - Hillyard or Hill's Yard - 1895 Spokane History Timeline
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