Oliver Perry Meeker Midland History August 28, 2022 227During the winter of 1851 near Indianapolis, twenty-four-year-old Oliver Perry Meeker and a group of friends and neighbors were making...
Ezra Meeker’s Biggest Blunder Midland History January 21, 2022 163In March 1889 Ezra Meeker committed one of his biggest blunders ever, he was caught and admitted to bribing Puyallup Indians with money for their vote to approve a right of way through the Puyallup Indian Reservation.
Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 Midland History March 17, 2021 186An Act to create the Office of Surveyor-General of the Public Lands in Oregon, and to provide for the Survey,...
Treaty of Medicine Creek Northwest History December 17, 2020 165Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded on the She-nah-nam, or Medicine Creek, in the Territory of Washington, this...
Tacoma and Fern Hill Street Railroad Streetcar Lines March 22, 2020 477On February 8, 1888, the Tacoma City Council passed Ordinance No. 188, granting Randolph Radebaugh the city’s second street railroad...
Olympic Land Company Midland History September 11, 2018 298The Olympic Land, Loan, and Trust Company was incorporated on October 29, 1889 by George W. McAllister, president, Frank O....