The Old Stevens Mansion By Kate Stevens Bates Washington Historian, Vol 19 No 2 (April 1928), 108-111. p108 In view of the early landscaping of the Capitol grounds at Olympia one naturally wonders just what will be done with the old Stevens home on Capitol Way and Eleventh Street. One must wish that some means could be…
INDEX From Rogues, Buffoons and Statesmen: The Inside Story of Washington’s Capital City by Gordon Newell Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1975. Transcribed for Web, 2002 TRascribed verbatim, including errors. Text in [brackets] inserted to aid searching. A Abbott, M. D., 337 Abernethy, Alexander S., 23,32, 33, 82 Acme Theater, 222, 266, 327 Active,…
SOME OF THE EARLY DOCTORS OF OLYMPIA by Dr. T.R. Ingham (Used with permission from Thurston County Historic Commission) 1994 CHARLES McARTHUR Charles E. McArthur was born July 9, 1901 on a Kansas wheat farm near Walton, some ten miles north of Wichita. He attended the one room school at Walton and…
Scanned version “So Fair a Dwelling Place”: A History of Olympia and Thurston County Washington By Gordon Newell Olympia: Olympia News Publishing, 1950. Electronically Transcribed 2001. By Edward Echtle Note: transcription retains errors appearing in the original text, and no doubt includes a few added in the transcription process. Please check unclear passages against an…
Pioneer Links: A Narrative Of The Establishment Of The Independent Order Of Odd Fellows On The Pacific Coast And A History Of Odd Fellowship In Washington To 1880, A Souvenir Of Thirty-Two Years In The Grand Lodge Of Washington Ioof. [Excerpts regarding Olympia Lodge No. 1, the Oldest Corporation in Washington still in…
Lights and Shades of Pioneer Life on Puget Sound, By A Native Son George E. Blankenship Transcribed by Roger Easton Transcriber’s notes: Lights And Shades of Pioneer Life on Puget Sound, was published in limited edition by George E. Blankenship in 1923. In 1972, Shorey’s Book Store in Seattle printed only 100 facsimile editions. Blankenship’s…
History of Olympia Lodge No. 1, F. & A. M.Olympia, Washington 1852–1935. George E. Blankenship, Compiler Olympia, Washington FOREWORD It is deemed advisable in compiling a history of Olympia Lodge No. 1to avoid much of the routine business and Masonic work, which would beuninteresting to the reader and of little historical value. This…
