Attalia Walla Walla County, Washington


Mapped Location

Attalia: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

 

Information

General information on Attalia

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Attalia

A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named

Name Description
Attalia Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Attalia

References to Attalia that document the origin of its place name

Title Cover Image: Origin of Washington geographic names

ATTALIA, a town in Walla Walla County. It was named by Mrs. V. K. Loose of Seattle. While touring Italy she visited a little hamlet whose name appealed to her so strongly that her husband adopted it for his irrigation and townsite projects in 1906. (R. C. Julian, in Names MSS., Letter 341.)

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names

 

Last updated: 2017-02-12