City of Tumwater Thurston County, Washington
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General information on City of Tumwater
- Feature Type: Incorporated
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for City of Tumwater
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| City of Tumwater | Official |
| Tumwater | Official |
A Selected Bibliography of City of Tumwater, Thurston County, Washington
A compilation of essential readings detailing the history, geography, and culture of the region.
Lacey, Olympia, and Tumwater a pictorial history by Shanna Stevenson
This book gives a reader the opportunity to view the Olympia, Lacy, Tumwater in its early development stages and fills a lot of gaps.
223 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Non-circulating [ 1 ]
Lights and shades of pioneer life on Puget Sound by George E. Blankenship
George E. Blankenship’s 1923 retrospective, Lights and shades of pioneer life on Puget Sound, provides a granular eyewitness chronicle of mid-nineteenth-century settler expansion and civic formation centered around Olympia, Budd Inlet, and the southern reaches of the Salish Sea. Drawing upon pioneer reminiscences, local lore, and territorial archives, Blankenship documents how foundational Euro-American outposts—most notably the water-powered timber mills at Tumwater Falls (New Market) and the commercial wharves and legislative halls of Olympia—were superimposed directly onto the ancestral estuarine villages, seasonal shellfish beds, and river mouths stewarded by the Steh-Chass, Squaxin Island, and Nisqually peoples. The narrative details the fragile mechanics of early frontier logistics, illustrating how isolated homesteaders relied almost entirely on established Coast Salish marine highways, Indigenous canoe transport, and interdependent trade networks for basic provisions, mail transit, and regional communication before the development of permanent overland roads or regular steam navigation. By recording the social bonds, racial tensions, and military mobilizations that erupted during the Puget Sound War of 1855–1856, Blankenship captures the profound friction of territorial development, tracing how a deeply interdependent coastal trade nexus was systematically restructured into an institutionalized American political and industrial landscape.
90 pages ; 23 cm
ONLINE Circulation [ 1 ]
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Last updated: 2017-01-15