State militiamen pose on what is now Issaquah’s East Sunset Way. The Bellevue Hotel is in the background of what was then called Gilman, after Daniel Gilman, who helped open King County’s resource-rich hinterlands to industrial development in the late 1880s by building the Seattle Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad. (<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/militiamen-in-issaquah-ca-1891/" target="_blank">Pacific NW Magazine</a>, June 15, 2012)