Waterfall Garden Park, 2nd Avenue S and S Main Street, Seattle, Washington, United States
United Parcel Service
CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins87% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 87%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or betterHistoryLink[1]: "On August 28, 1907, ... James E. Casey and Claude Ryan start American Messenger Service"; Wikipedia's[2] UPS infobox gives Founded August 28, 1907 in Seattle, and the Seattle Times[3] said UPS would mark its centennial on Aug. 28, 2007.
On 28 August 1907 James E. Casey and Claude Ryan began the American Messenger Service in a basement at Second Avenue and Main Street in Seattle with US$100 borrowed from Ryan's uncle, the company that became United Parcel Service.
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