In this Daily Olympian photo from summer 1966, Olympia city staffers stock the water feature with fish at the new City Hall at Plum and 8th Avenue. Since the “moat” was never intended as a fish pond, all the fish died shortly thereafter. This building complex is now the Lee Creighton Justice Center.
Daily Olympian photo, 1966, State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1986.43.66.8.17.21
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2018