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Date
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Sunday, March
3, 2002 |
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City
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153 |
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County:
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Lewis |
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City Name
History:
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The
town was platted in the 1880s by Omar Mauermann on his homestead on Pe Ell
Prairie. The prairie's name was adopted as the town name in the
belief that it was an Native-American word, but subsequent research
disclosed that it was the natives' mispronunciation of the French name
Pierre. French-Canadian Pierre Charles, a former Hudson's Bay Co.
employee, had pastured horses in the region in the 1850, and the
Native-Americans called the prairie after him. |
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