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More Research- Early Tumwater

Books, CDs, Videos:

K-6th grade:

  • The Gristmill by Bobbie Kalman

  • 19th Century Girls and Women
    by Bobbie Kalman

  • Early Schools by Bobbie Kalman

  • Early Settler Children
    by Bobbie Kalman

  • Early Stores and Markets by Bobbie Kalman
7th grade and up:
  • The Founding of Tumwater by Don Trosper

  • New Market by Don Trosper

  • Fortress Tumwater by Don Trosper

  • Olympia, Tumwater, and Lacey:
    a Pictorial History
    by Shanna Stevenson

  • Tumwater Historic Sites and Markers
    (in the Tumwater Library Reference Collection)

  • Early History of Thurston County
    by Georgiana Blankenship

  • A Pioneer's Search for an Ideal Home
    by Phoebe Goodell Judson

  • The River Remembers: a History of Tumwater
    edited by Gayle Palmer

  • Told by the Pioneers
    Olympia Pioneer Project
    (available at Timberland Regional Library and Washington State Library)

  • Tumwater Historic District History and Development
    (Pamphlet available at the Henderson House Museum)

  • Tumwater:  Our First 150 Years (video)
Museums and Historic Sites:
  • The Henderson House Museum
    602 Deschutes Way SW
    Tumwater, Washington
    (360) 754-4163

  • The Historic Crosby House
    703 Deschutes Way SW
    Tumwater, Washington
    (360) 943-9884

  • George Bush kiosk
    Old Highway 99
    Tumwater, Washington

  • Tumwater Homesteaders Pioneer Fair
    (held on a weekend in the end of May or early June)
    Peter G. Schmidt Elementary School
    6600 Capitol Boulevard, Tumwater

  • Tumwater Falls Heritage Harvest Festival
    (held on the first Sunday in October)
    Tumwater Falls Park
    Deschutes Way
    Tumwater, Washington

  • Union and Pioneer Calvary Cemetery
    5700 Littlerock Road
    Tumwater, Washington
 

 

 

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