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# The Great Seattle-Tacoma Blow-up
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/mossbacks-northwest-2/episode/the-great-seattle-tacoma-blow-up-ojdy9l/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:10:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-10T11:09:14.000Z
- Description: Seattle and Tacoma's biggest battle is over the name of our biggest mountain.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Mossback's Northwest, Season 2, Episode 6, #ZZZ_Episode_efe89552-a6fc-4023-8c75-6310e7687da1, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_50744e68-2011-417f-9f73-f880b010d33f, #v1.16

Since the mid-19th century, Seattle and Tacoma have been business rivals. A focus of their fight: what to call Mt. Rainier. Tacomans wanted it renamed Tacoma or Tahoma, said to be the native names for the volcano, but the mountain’s “discoverer” named it for a friend in the Royal Navy. Rainier survives, but discussion has been rekindled after Alaska’s Mt. McKinley was renamed “Denali.”