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Date
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Sunday, March
3, 2002 |
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City
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176 |
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Thurston |
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The
oldest American settlement in the Puget Sound country is on the falls of
the Deschutes River. The Native-Americans called it spa-kwatl,
meaning "falls"; the French voyageurs named it deschutes,
or "falls"; their Hudson's Bay Company superiors, contemplating the
erection of a sawmill there, wrote of it as Puget Sound Falls; Wilkes
referred to it as Shute's River Falls; and in the Chinook jargon the name
was Tum-wat-er. Michael Troutmans Simmons, leader of the Americans
who settled there in 1845, called the site New Market. Later the
name was changed to Tumwater, as it likened the sound of falling water to
the repeated throb of a human heart, which was expressed in the jargon as thum-thum. |
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