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Date
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Sunday, March
3, 2002 |
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City
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179 |
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County:
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Thurston |
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City Name
History:
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Originally
known as Woodland after Isaac Woods, who settled the area in 1852, the
community boasted two large sawmills, a resort hotel, the region's
biggest horse-racing track, and a 10-by-12-foot long schoolhouse in the
1890s. Believing the prestige of a post office would stimulate
further growth, Woods submitted a petition through his attorney, O.C.
Lacey of Olympia. Postal officials rejected the railroad station
name of Woodland as duplicating a town name in Cowlitz County. So
Lacey, who doubled as real estate developer and who had land interests in the
area, substituted his own name on the application to expedite
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