Throughout 2023 the Sunday Olympian’s Looking Back theme was origins of area place names. Pictured here in a charcoal portrait is early settler William McLane. He and his wife Martha McLeod McLane lent their name to a creek, school, fire district and grange. McLane served for six terms in the Washington Territorial Legislature.
Charcoal portrait, Courtesy Washington State Historical Society, Capital Museum collection, catalog C1961.1731.1
Text © Deborah Ross and the Olympian 2023