William Winlock Miller: The Forgotten History of an Olympia Man of Influence
William Winlock Miller was a founding member of the Olympia community and Olympia High School was named after him at its founding.
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William Winlock Miller was a founding member of the Olympia community and Olympia High School was named after him at its founding.
Tucked into the back corner of the Capitol campus, the Governor’s Mansion is arguably the most grand home in Olympia. It was built in 1908, just a few
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Phil Kearny died with a single bullet to the spine.
Washington is the only American state named after a president. It is named for George Washington (1732-1799), the Revolutionary War leader who served as A less noticed memorial to George Washington stands across from the Helen Sommers building near Capitol Way: an elm tree planted in 1932, on the bicentennial of the leader’s birth.
<p>One novelist's work adapting the story of her 19th century forebears (the last Hudson's Bay Company trader in the US, his Nez Perce wife, and the family that they raised) led her to archives, historians, and the challenge of narrating the complexities of the period when conquest supplanted a hybrid indigenous-European society between the Rockies and the Pacific. </p>