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  • The Society & Museum
    • About Us
    • Land Acknowledgement Statement
    • Board
    • OHS-BHM Annual Reports to City Council
    • Strategic Plan
    • OHS-BHM Annual Awards for Excellence in Heritage
    • Membership
    • Contact Us
    • Get Involved!
  • Research Olympia history
    • Resources
      • Bibliography
      • Geographic Resources
      • Photos and films
      • Links
    • Where Are We? Historic and heritage sites
      • Interactive Map
      • Where Are We? Contents
    • Who are we? Area residents 1845-1930
    • The Sanborn Overlays – Introduction
      • The Sanborn Overlays – Instructions and Tips
      • 1884
      • 1891
      • 1908
      • 1924 and 1947
    • Sylvester’s Window
    • Many Voices – A Resource Guide
    • Queries
  • Bigelow House Museum
    • The Story of the Bigelow House
    • Bigelow House Photograph Collection
    • Meet the Bigelow Family
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December 16, 2009

Weir: Olympia, The Capital

TranscriptionsBy Olympia Historical SocietyDecember 16, 2009

Olympia, the Capital of the State of Washington By Allen Weir The Washington Historian, 2:3 (April, 1901), 107-111. Some one has said that “God made the country and man made the city.”  This is, at least, an exaggerated statement, and needs to be qualified.  No city could be built, or could flourish, unless it have…

Tannis: Journal of Levi Lathrop Smith

TranscriptionsBy Olympia Historical SocietyDecember 16, 2009

  The Journal of Levi Lathrop Smith, 1847 – 1848Edited by James Robert Tannis [full text of the diary follows Tannis’ preface] [Transcribed 2003 by Roger Easton.  Note: Excerpted text from Smith’s Journal entries contains all mispellings, errors, etc. as in the original]   May 17. the Eldest Sow was deliverd of Five Sow pigs.…

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