Named for Samuel E. Thurston, first Delegate to Congress from Oregon Territory, one year before Washington Territory was carved out of “North Oregon”
Traditional home of Nisqually, Squaxin Island and Upper Chehalis American Indian . . . — — Map (db m153964) HM
Jackson Family History
Nathaniel, “Nat” Jackson and Thelma. Harrison both grew up in the Jim-Crow-segregated, South. Nat was born in Lilly, Louisiana in 1943 and Thelma in Pritchard, Alabama, in 1946, the two met in the fall of 1963 while . . . — — Map (db m293280) HM
Lucetta Gertrude Morgan was 11 years old when the family moved to Olympia, Washington Territory. Eight years later, she met Emory Ferguson during his service as a legislator.
What a lucky break for both seasoned pioneers: An eligible . . . — — Map (db m179006) HM
After plans to replace the wooden Territorial Capitol on the present campus were abandoned in the mid-1890s, the Romanesque-style Thurston County Courthouse (now the “Old Capitol”) was purchased in 1901 to serve as the capitol building. A wing to . . . — — Map (db m293851) HM
From 1871 to 1873 the Northern Pacific Railroad constructed the “Prairie Line” from Kalama on the Columbia River to Tacoma on Puget Sound. With the coming of the railroad, logging and milling operations moved inland along the rails. Many of these . . . — — Map (db m192407) HM
This stretch of public shoreline—a part of the Washington State Capitol Campus—is named in honor of the first U.S. Women's Olympic Marathon Trials, which took place in Olympia on May 12, 1984. Competitors in that historic race ran 26.2 . . . — — Map (db m128630) HM
Site of the Medicine Creek Treaty between governor I.I. Stevens and Puget Sound Indians 1854 marked by Sacajawea Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1922. — — Map (db m286083) HM
One of the earliest railroad lines in Thurston County began in 1878 and eventually became known as the Port Townsend Southern Railroad (PTSRR) in 1890. The original rail line construction was spearheaded by Thurston County residents hoping to . . . — — Map (db m292790) HM
Nancy Ann Alien was born November 14, 1832, in Gentry County, Missouri. Her parents were Robert and Marian (Crawford) Ready, natives of Kentucky where they were married in 1826. Nancy was the oldest of four children. Her sister Elenor, "Elen", . . . — — Map (db m148180) HM
This delightful two-and-a-half story home dates from the optimistic age at the turn of the 20th century. By then Tumwater had blossomed from a tiny pioneer village into a very promising town with electric streetcars, a railroad spur and a highly . . . — — Map (db m292668) HM
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* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
