“I remember giving our first tour; we were dressed in corsets, walking down Holly Street and somebody leaned out the side of the car and yelled, ‘What is happening?’”
Sara Holodnick
The Sin and Gin Tour focuses on the brothel and saloon history of Bellingham, while the Gore and Lore Tour focuses on murder mysteries, ghost legends and the history of transient populations in Bellingham.
One of the first documented instances of racism in the city were riots caused in response to a large Sikh population. In 1906, an influx of Sikh immigrants moved to Bellingham to work at the lumber mills, Forney said.
