Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-05-31
OUR EARLY HISTORY.
Some Account Of Early Places and Events
in the Far West.

~vsAAS A$~VoAh VI Larry IAo@6S ouU EvenIe
in the Far West.
J 1592-Juan de Fuca. a Greek ex-
plOrer, claimed to have discovered
the straits that bear his name.
1775-Heceta, Spanish explorer,
sailed north and on July IA first set
foot on the soil of the Northwest
coast. "
1178-" Oregon" This name sap-
pears to have been invented by Car
yer in 1878 and was made famous by
Bryant in Thanatopsis in 1917.
1792-VancOuver, an English ex-
plorer, entered and named Puget
Sound, Hoods canal and other places
about the Sound.
1805-Lewis and Clarke entered
the Territory of Washington, then
embraced in the limits of Oregon, at
Lewiston, October Z.
1824-Fort Vancouver was estab-
lished by DR.. John McLoughlan,
manager of the Hudson Bay COM
pany's trade on the Pacific coast.
1o33-Fort Nisqually was estab-
lished by Lieutenant Kittson of the
Hudson Bay company.
lo34-The first gospel sermon
preached in old Oregon was by Jason
Lee at Fort Vancouver, Washington,
Sept. 26.
l835-The first steamboat on the
Pacific coast was the Beaver" I"
built at London for the Hudson Bay
Co. She cost $4,000. The Beaver
was not only the first steam vessel
that plowed the Pacific, but the first
vessel to ply regularly between Mis-
qually and Sitka, then owned by
Russia.
1836-Dr. Marcus Whitman and
party crossed the Rocky mountains
to Oregon. They arrived at Fort
Vancouver Sept. II. Mrs. Whitman
and Mrs. Spalding were the first
white women to cross the continent,
making the trip on horseback.
l839-October l4 Rev. Modesto
Demers, a Catholic priest, took up
his residence on COwlitz prairie.
where he hung and rang out the first
church bell ever heard in the terri
WY Va OA0 OEcSOu.
1839-First Touring mill, built at
Fort Vancouver, WASH, by William
Cannon, an American, who came
with the Astor party in 1910. It
was a cog-wheel horsepower mill.
1843-Civil government was first
organized in Old Oregon at Cham
poeg, May 2, 1843.
1845-In October Michael T. Sim
mons with five other families and
two unmarried men settled at Tum-
water, making the first settlement
ON Puget Sound.
1847-Michael Simmons and others
built the first sawmill. on Puget
Sound and the first in Washington
at Tumwater Falls.
1849-First term of court held on
Puget Sound was in October, 1849,
at Fort Steilacoom. Chief Justice
Bryan of Oregon presided.
185O-Captain Lafayette Balch
erected ON his donation claim the
first building at Steilacoom from
lumber brought from Maine,
1850-Olympia founded by Ed
mun0 sylvester.
1852-Bellingham founded.
1852@Seattle founded in May, 1852,
by A. A. Denny, DR.. d. S. Maynard
and others.
1852-Nicholas DeLin erected a
sawmill near what is now South
Twenty-fifth and A streets, Tacoma,
and sent the first cargo of lumber to
San Francisco. Jacob Bernhart built
o house near the present corner OF
South Thirteenth street and Pacific
avenue.
1053-Bill creating the Territory
of Washington passed the Senate
March 2, 1853, and was signed by
President Fillmore the same day.
1853-Peter Judson located q claim
and built q house not far from the
present site of the Northern Pacific
depot, at Tacoma.
1854-First wedding on the site Of
what was afterward Tacoma. Mich
olas DeLin and Gertrude Mueller, a
niece Of Peter Iudson, were married.
Their daughter, Anna G. DeLin, born
April %, 1858, was the first white
child born on the site of Tacoma.
1864-After the Indian war Job
Carr located o claim, on Christmas
day, 1864, and built q house near
what is now Carr street, Old Tacoma.
186S-Tacoma was founded by Gen.
eral M. NJ. McCarver in 1868, and
few years later was officially desig-
mated az the terminus of the North
ern Pacific railroad.
l873-The Northern Pacific rail-
road was finished from the south to
Tacoma, December 16, 1873.
1889-The State of Washington
was born November IL, 1889, at $40
p. NJ, and the event was announced
by telegram at Olympia at 7:45 P. M.
the same day.
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