Olympia High School WW Miller High School - Olympiad Yearbook (Olympia, WA)

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IN RETROSPECT This revered burial place of Thurston county it is difficult to realize that at one time one's ancestors once pioneers lies just east of Olympia. At the bottom lived in haunting fear of attack from hostile Indians.. of the page are thc photographs of the four tablets For throughout all the early days of the white man's posted at the entrance way. occupancy, there bubbled, as steadily as an underground ANY years ago when Wash- A-14 ington was a territory, modern . city streets were playgrounds 553 2 for Indians, and the wide cement s fvfesr 'L sea of oil, a constant current of plot- ting and hostility on the part of the A red man in an effort to exterminate the hated whites. This movement broke out constantly in varying degrees. .. Sometimes it was a small foraging I' 'f' f party to steal cattle and horses, some- : , ,,.,J il' Tiff' 'T ' . roads of today were tortuous trails .e...--..-, - eff- -v -- through dense forests and thick under- growth, a group of men formed a com- f . . ,, :lily 1::.g:g:1',, pany for the purpose of building a sawmill to utilize the natural power of Tumwater falls. They founded times a rald on some small cabin on the outskirts of a settlement, some- times a wholesale massacre. It was this fear of attack which resulted in the building by the settlers of blockhouses to which they would ,.. . ,,,,n,za:' we-at 35- f ef k -. 5. B . ti +' -.zen in 2 L 'il 'F it sr :n -A. 4.5 1. -f , 1 ft -Q. -,J W --H-. I-f 4 L m J -T 4. 1 L f 1 'ff' 7 an nz! A44 fs- ,, .TSM 3 .- , wiki , 1' , 1, -r - r wif -fi ' a s . . .- .- ,gf ' Tft f' g the first settlement in that half of the -- 'F ' fl ---' . old Oregon territory that is now he , state of Washington. These men were Jesse Ferguson, Col. M. T. Simmons, Frank Shaw, Edmund Sylvester, A. B. Rabbeson, Gabriel Jones, A. D. Carnetix and John Kindred. They began work on the mill in 1847. They called their settlement Newmarket, but the name later receded to the original Indian title, Tumwater, which it bears today. Living as inhabitants of the Puget Sound country do today in a peaceful atmosphere with no other threat of danger from the forests than the plaintive howl, on a gloomy night, of some beast, probably one of the last of his tribe, retreat when news of Indians on the warpath came to them. According to Hazard Stevens' life of his father, General Isaac I. Stevens, one block- house and one stockade were built by volunteers in the city of Olympia, and three blockhouses were built by settlers at Chamber's Prairie. Since, when the Tumwater settlement was made, there were no passable roads, the only means of receiving much- needed supplies was by ship on Puget Sound. It was a bother to haul these goods from the sound to the settlement which was a few miles inland, so it was not long before a few log cabins appeared at the mouth of Budd's Inlet on the sound where the settlers could get their provisions seas. Q eve, sum+..weae'.f1s. .- ,age

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from the occasional sailing vessel which made the em- bryonic port. Prices were unbelievably high, because of the difliculty of shipment. In 1852, pork was selling at from S40 to 21550 per barrel and flour was as high as S40 per barrel. The supplies came around Cape Horn and sometimes all the food in the settlement ran out and the settlers were forced to live on nature's bounty for five or six weeks until the next boat came. The new settlement had been called Stechas or Beans Place by Indians-which provides a hint as to where Olympia's athletic teams got their traditional nick- name-but Levi Lathrop Smith, who founded it, evidently disliked the name because he changed it to Smithfield. The settlement occupied a part of what is now Olympia. Smith's partner was Edmund Sylvester, who by virtue of the park named for him which lies today in the center of the capitol city, is well known to students. Upon the death of Smith, who died of apoplexy during a canoe trip up the Des- chutes river from Olympia to Tum- . water, Sylvester became the sole owner 1 of the site of the capitol city. I-le moved there from his prairie farm and built a log hotel which meas- ured 16 by 24 feet and contained two rooms. This was the first build- ing in Olympia. In i850 Sylvester laid off the claim as a townsite and called it by the more pretentious name of Olympia. The attitude of the free days of early Olympia is described by a para- graph from Pioneer Days on Puget Sound by Arthur A. Denny, pioneer Seattleite: The man who had the best stock of health and the most faith and pluck was the most wealthy, for we were all capitalists in those days. Each one expected to help himself, and as a rule, all went to work with energy to open up the country and make homes for themselves. At the same time they were ever ready to help each other in case of need or misfortune. Olympia was the third city in the state, and when Wash- ington became a separate territory from Oregon, it was the largest city in the region. It was here that Governor Isaac I. Stevens, lirst ruler of the territory, arrived on November 25, 185 3, after a trip that took him live months and nine- teen days from St. Paul. History records that the first territorial legislature con- I ,V ,,.. , ,WN Neeym vened in a small two-story building, the Star Cafe, on Main street CCapitol Way, between Second and Third. By 1865 affairs were well under way on Budd's Inlet. Albert D. Richardson, an Eastern journalist who accom- panied Schuyler Colfax, the speaker of the national House of Representatives, on a trip of inspection, braving the uwilds of the west gathering material for his book, Be- yond the Mississippi, leaves in it a -f graphic picture of the primeval settle- ment. Leaving Portland, he wrote they steamed down the clear Wallamet Cwillamettel for twelve miles, the blue Columbia and the muddy CowIitz, and landed at Monticello, one of the early settlements in Wash- ington territory. Thence they made a two-day covered wagon ride which took them to the capitol. Here they found that Washington territory, with a population of 20,000 people has no daily news- paper. Olympia, the seat of govern- ment at the most southern elbow of Puget sound, contains 600 people in winter, and perhaps half as many in summer. It is a settlement struggling hard against primeval nature and ab- original man. Thus far the advan- tage is rather with the forest and the Indian. After dark, the entire popu- lation-men, women, children and Indians-were ad- dresed by Mr. Colfax. Modern Olympia dates from January 29, IB59, when the city was incorporated with Ct. A. Barnes, T. P. McElroy, James Tilton, Joseph Cushman and Elwood Evans, trustees, and Cushman, president of the board. In this year the old blockhouse on the square was commissioned as a jail, and the new city took its place in the urban world. In the same year John Mil- ler Murphy started the historic Washington Standard, early Fort Eaton, shown above, was built by the settlers during the ln- dian War of 1856. The- marker commemorating it, pictured at the bottom of the page, was erected by the Freedom community in 1932. The oak tree on this historic spot still stands. The center picture is of the marker indicating the end of the famed Oregon Trail.