Looking Back’s theme for 2024 was Many Streams, celebrating our rich and diverse history. The Bigelow neighborhood, Bigelow Park, and Bigelow Street are named for an early settler family. Pictured here is Ann Elizabeth White, who married Olympia attorney Daniel Bigelow in 1854. The Bigelows erected their home on the east side of Olympia around 1860. It is one of the oldest surviving residences in Olympia, currently operated as the Bigelow House Museum.
Photograph Olympia Historical Society and Bigelow House Museum collection
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2024