Olympia and Thurston County, WA History
 

Other Sites
Churches | Maritime | Native Peoples | Railroad | Miscellaneous
 
 

Churches

Links
• Churches of Christ & Christian Churches in Thurston County
• Historical Sketches of First United Methodist Church of Olympia
• Indian Shaker Church

Maritime

Links
• Historic Tugboat Sandman
• Murray Morgan: Peter Puget on Puget's Sound
• NOAA Historical Nautical Charts WASHINGTON:
• Olympia Harbor, 1856
• Olympia Harbor, 1895
• Seattle to Olympia, 1905
• Ships and Shipping Database at TPL

Native Peoples

Links
• The Lushootseed Peoples of Puget Sound Country
• Chief Leschi
• Medicine Creek Treaty, 1854
• Nisqually Tribe History
• Squaxin Tribe History

Railroad

Links
• Cram's Railroad Map of Washington, 1896
• History of the Northern Pacific in SW Washington
• Historic Rail-Trails
• Northern Pacific #1 "Minnetonka" on Display, Duluth, Minnesota
• Photos
• Mud Bay Logging Shay Locomotive and Specifications
• Bordeaux Lumber Co., #2, Bordeaux, WA
• NP locomotive number 67 at Olympia, Wash., October 2, 1931.
• Olympia Lumber Co. Locomotive
• Port of Olympia #2  (found at: http://WASteam.Railfan.net/parks.html)

Miscellaneous

• Petition to Establish Thurston County, 1851
• Marking Time: Thurston County Historical Markers

 

 

Links

• Chronology of Washington
• Historic US Highways in Washington
• Mima Mounds:
• Mima Mounds of Thurston County
• Mima MoundsBy Christopher Nelson
• MOUNDS OF MYSTERY
• NewspaperAstracts.com: Thurston County
• Tenas Wawa: Chinook Jargon
• Thurston County Biographies
• Thurston Regional Planning Historic Preservation Page

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Updated December 30, 2001