Throughout 2023 the Sunday Olympian’s Looking Back theme was origins of area place names. 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 known residences in Olympia, currently operated as the Bigelow House Museum.
Bigelow Photograph Collection, Olympia Historical Society and Bigelow House Museum
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2023