A group of Washington State Civil War veterans gathered for a convention in Olympia in 1934, posing here for their photograph in the Old State Capitol Building (now Superintendent of Public Instruction). The local chapter of the Civil War veterans’ association, known as the Grand Army of the Republic, gathered each year for a picnic at Squaxin Park (then named Priest Point Park) until the 1930s; the Olympia GAR chapter’s oldest veteran died in 1939.
Vibert Jeffers photo, 1934, Susan Parish Collection, Washington State Archives
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2020