Ezra Meeker’s Biggest Blunder
In March 1889 Ezra Meeker committed one of his biggest blunders ever, he was caught and admitted to bribing Puyallup Indians with money for their vote to approve a right of way through the Puyallup Indian Reservation.
Donation Land Claim Act of 1850
An Act to create the Office of Surveyor-General of the Public Lands in Oregon, and to provide for …Read More
Treaty of Medicine Creek
Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded on the She-nah-nam, or Medicine Creek, in the Territory of …Read More
Tacoma and Fern Hill Street Railroad
On February 8, 1888, the Tacoma City Council passed Ordinance No. 188, granting Randolph Radebaugh the city’s second …Read More
Olympic Land Company
The Olympic Land, Loan, and Trust Company was incorporated on October 29, 1889 by George W. McAllister, president, …Read More
Tacoma Streetcar Disaster
From the essay – Forty-three passengers die in a trolley car accident in Tacoma on July 4, 1900. …Read More