Introduction: Here are some locations/descriptions of Nisqually villages from Marian Smith’s book Puyallup-Nisqually.
16. Located at Glencove on Carr Inlet. This village was originally peopled from the village and Minter and retained its close alliance with it.
17. Located at the head of Burley Lagoon, Carr Inlet. In giving village sites sites the informant that he had [...]
The Natural Environment
Introduction: Who we are on the Yelm Prairie is part the result of what has happened along the Nisqually River and on the land bordering it over thousands of years The following selections will provide a picture of the natural forces at work shaping the environment that Native Americans and Euro-American settlers discovered.
The [...]
Traveling the Oregon Trial and the Naches Pass
Introduction: Several pioneers, in addition to James Longmire, wrote accounts of their trip west. From here you will be able to access their accounts of the route through the Nachess Pass and other hardships they encountered on the way. (Spellings are from the originals)
The Naches Pass – Lucille [...]
THE TOWN HAS IDEA BEHIND IT
It Goes Henry Ford One Better Or So, Does McKenna
By Francis Stone Burns
Tacoma Daily Ledger November 17, 1918
McKenna, Nov. 16.–(Special)–the blue and white old mountain, seamed and scarred, majestic, her throat wrapped in a scarf of mist, turned her face through the late autumn sunshine yesterday to a half hundred [...]
TOWN MAY BE ESTABLISHED
PLANS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF NISQUALLY PROPERTY TO COST MILLIONS.
EASTERNERS BACK SCHEME
Tract Owned by Salsich Lumber Company Will Have Good Railroad Facilities
Tacoma Daily Ledger March 3, 1907 (p. 5)
Eastern capitalists, associated with H. E. Salsich in the purchase of land and water rights on the Nisqually River in Pierce and Thurston Counties, plan [...]
Scenes At The Salsich Lumber Company’s New Town Of McKenna — Mammoth New Industry Tributary To Tacoma.
NEW PLANT OF THE SALSICH LUMBER COMPANY AT MCKENNA.
Tacoma Daily Ledger May 2, 1909 (p. 40)
The Ledger presents herewith the first published picture of the Salsich Lumber company’s big new plan at McKenna on the Tacoma Eastern Railroad, together [...]
LUMBER COMPANY BUILDS MODEL TOWN
About Fifty Houses Already Erected at McKenna
Lumber is Being Cut for 200 More-Town Laid Out With Broad Streets and Buildings Are Being Erected With View of Architectural Neatness
Tacoma Daily Ledger June 7, 1908 (p. 11)
(Special Dispatch to the Ledger)
Olympia, June 6 – – A model town in the making is in [...]
GOOD OUTLOOK FOR BUILDING IN 1907
ONLY ONE CLOUD EXISTS ON LOCAL HORIZON
Tacoma Daily Ledger December 23, 1906 (p. 20)
H. E. Salsich, the Eastern investor, who recently purchased 1,300 acres along the Nisqually and near Yelm, from F. W. Carylon, is arranging for the erection of a big sawmill upon the banks of the Nisqually, and [...]
REAL ESTATE MARKET BRISK
PRICES ON PACIFIC AVENUE AND C STREET LOTS GOING UP.
ACREAGE IS IN DEMAND
Tacoma Daily Ledger December 9, 1906
Some Important Transactions
The two big transactions of the week were the purchase of the Savoy Theater property by A. Bugge, of Bellingham, for $120,000 and the sale of 1,300 acres near Yelm, lying in Pierce [...]
LUMBER COMPANY IS RUSHING BIG PLANT
Tacoma Daily Ledger August 11, 1907 (p. 16)
Salsich Project at Nisqually to Be in Operation by Next April.
Construction work upon the big sawmill and townsite on the Nisqually, the projects of the Salsich Lumber company, is progressing rapidly. Members of the company that the big mill will probably be in [...]
