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Date
Visited:
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Sunday,
February 10, 2002 |
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City
Visited #:
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141 |
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County:
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Pierce |
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Visited
With:
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Michelle &
Tacoma Jenn |
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City Name
History:
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Originally,
French-Canadians of the Hudson's Bay Co. titled the 700-foot-deep
Nisqually River canyon as La Grande, meaning "the large
one." Later as part of a land development promotion, a Judge
John McMurray, who owned a large tract that included a portion of the
canyon, placed a sign along the roadway in 1904 which read:
"Watch The Grand Canyon Grow." Thus, the townsite became
known as La Grande, and the name was assigned to the hydroelectric plant
opened at the site by the city of Tacoma in 1912. |
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Comments:
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As
it was raining, I am holding the flag out of the way for the photo and
getting soaked at the same time. |
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