Also the site of the Seattle Chinese Expulsion from February 6-9, 1886. Community historian Doug Chin writes, “Fueled by years of anti-Chinese sentiments, a hateful anti-Chinese riot erupted in Seattle on February 7, 1886. On that day, an angry mob of 1,500 invaded the Chinese settlement here in Pioneer Square, forced some 350 Chinese on wagons, and hauled them and their belongings...to be sent away on the Queen of the Pacific steamer to San Francisco. The mob’s intent, as well as most of the citizens of Seattle, was the expulsion of Chinese from Seattle.” Wing Luke Museum Collection.