Throughout 2023 the Sunday Olympian’s Looking Back theme was origins of area place names. Langridge Avenue and Langridge Loop, in northwest Olympia, are likely named for the Langridge family. Father George, originally from England, arrived in this area in the mid 1800s. Pictured here are his three daughters, Alice, Frances, and Kate.
Rogers Studio photo, about 1890, Courtesy State Capital Museum, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1009.195.6
Text © Deborah Ross and the Olympian 2023