Tumwater, Washington
Thurston County · Population 25,350 · Card no. 0594
The first American settlement on Puget Sound, founded in 1845 at the falls of the Deschutes River.
- The Olympia Brewing Company built its brewhouse at the falls in 1906.
- The settlers came north specifically to live outside the reach of slavery-era politics in Oregon.
- The name comes from Chinook Jargon for waterfall.
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