Tagged With: Charles Wilkes

What’s in a name? As it turns out, a lot

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Washington, Our Home

As I tweeted last week, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources’ Committee on Geographic Names is meeting to consider changing the names of a number of Washington State locations, the most prominent being Soap Lake in Grant County. Someone had the bright idea of renaming it “Lake Smokiam” despite the local community having spent … Continue reading »

Categories: Central Washington, History, Legislature, Puget Sound, Western Washington | Tags: Arlington, Blue Mountain, Bryant Hill, Bryant Lumber and Shingle Company, Cable Street, Cascades, Charles Wilkes, Chief Tseul-ted, Clark County, Committee on Geographic Names, Crawdad Creek, Dahlberg Mountain, DuPont, Ebey Estuary, Ebey Slough, Echo Lake, Everett, Google, Granite Falls, Grant County, Homstad Road, Isaac Ebey, Jefferson County, Jordan, Jordan Ridge, Jordan Road, Lake Louise Road, Lake Smokiam, Louisiana, Marysville, Marysville Sewage Lagoon, Mill Pond, Mount Washington, Olympics, Palouse, Possession Sound, Puget Sound, Reflection Creek, Rufus Creek, Skagit County, Snohomish County, Soap Lake, Squamish Harbor, Stimpson Reserve, Stimson Hill, Stimson Lumber Company, Sultan, Sultan Ridge, Suquamish Harbor, Suquamish Tribe, Washington, Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Washington Territory, Wayback Brook, Whatcom County, Whidbey Island | 3 Comments

Some insight into the life of Thomas Frost

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Washington, Our Home

Last week, I began planning the first full episode of the Washington, Our Home, video series and I decided the creation and exploration of the Willamette Meridian would be a good first start. To begin with, as I asked in a previous blog post, I had to learn why in the world someone in the mid-1800′s … Continue reading »