Booker T. Washington's Death Revisited. BALTIMORE -- Booker T. Washington died of high blood pressure, a review of his medical records has determined, erasing a cloud over the civil rights leader's death left by one of his doctors more than 90 years ago.
Mount Saint Helens eruption 1980. Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is 96 miles south of Seattle and 50 miles northeast of Portland, Oregon. Mount St. Helens takes its English name from the British diplomat Lord St Helens, a friend of explorer George Vancouver who made a survey of the area in the late 18th century.
Courtesy Oregon Hist. Soc. Research Lib., 006798. St. Helens is a Columbia River town located eighty-six river miles from the Pacific Ocean. The Columbia County seat since 1857, the city is at the confluence of the river and Multnomah Channel, less than three hundred yards from the northern tip of Sauvie Island.