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The Spokane tribe (whose name means “children of the sun” in Salishan) were the first people to settle in the area, and they subsisted on abundant wildlife. With the westward expansion and creation of the North West Company’s Spokane House in 1810, David Thompson investigated the area. This trading post was Washington’s first long-term European settlement. The Northern Pacific Railway opened in 1881, bringing residents to the Spokane area. It was incorporated as a city under the name of Spokane Falls the following year (it was re-incorporated under its current name ten years later). Gold and silver were discovered in the Inland Northwest in the late nineteenth century. Until the 1980s, the local economy was based on mining, forestry, and agriculture. At Expo ’74, Spokane held the world’s first environmental exposition.

After the Great Fire of 1889, architect Kirtland Kelsey Cutter designed several of the older Romanesque Revival-style structures in the downtown area. Riverfront and Manito parks, the Smithsonian-affiliated Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, the Davenport Hotel, and the Fox and Bing Crosby theaters are all located in the city.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane is housed in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes, while the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane is housed in the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is served by the Spokane Washington Temple, which is located in the county’s east end. The Jesuits created Gonzaga University in 1887, and the private Presbyterian Whitworth University followed three years later, moving to north Spokane in 1914.

Fairchild Air Force Base, as well as two huge casino hotels, are located in the city’s western suburb of Airway Heights.

The Spokane Indians of Minor League Baseball and the Spokane Chiefs of junior ice hockey are among the region’s professional and semi-professional sports clubs. Gonzaga University’s collegiate basketball team competes in Division I. The Spokesman-Review, Spokane’s major daily newspaper, had a daily circulation of nearly 76,000 as of 2010.