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Date
Visited:
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Sunday,
February 10, 2002 |
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City
Visited #:
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126 |
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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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Called
Chebaulip by the Native-Americans, the locality of the county seat was
first settled in 1852 by Nicholas DeLin. Native-American hostilities
forced the settlers to abandon the area, and it was not until 1864 that the
first permanent homesteader, Job Carr, took up land in what is now
Tacoma. In 1868 General Morton M. McCarver, a professional town
developer, arrived from Portland in search of a site that might serve as a
terminus of the proposed Northern Pacific Railroad. He found it on the
southern shore of Commencement Bay. He bought Carr's property and
platted a townsite under the proposed name of Commencement City. At the
suggestion of others, the name was changed to Tacoma, the Native-American
name for Mount Rainier mentioned in Theodore Winthrop's famous book on the
Pacific Northwest The Canoe and the Saddle - and, thus, the City of
Destiny was born. |
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