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Date
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Sunday, March
3, 2002 |
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City
Visited #:
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178 |
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County:
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Thurston |
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Visited
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City Name
History:
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To
the Native-Americans it was Stitchas, meaning "bear's
place." In 1846 settlers combined the surnames of its first two
settlers - Edmund Sylvester and L.L. Smith - and called it Smithter, which
gave way to the more conventional Smithfield. The seat of Thurston
County and the capital of the state was renamed for the Olympic Mountains
at the suggestion of United States customs collector Isaac N. Ebey, who
had a book in his library Olympia Fulvia Morata's Critical Observation
on Homer. |
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Comments:
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This is our state capital
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