Keyword(s): David Norberg
Located where the Nisqually River empties into southern Puget Sound on the Pierce-Thurston county border, the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge protects the river's estuary, providing...
Abby Rhoda Williams Hill was an artist and progressive activist from the Midwest who relocated to Tacoma in 1889 and, through her drawing and painting, captured scenes from across the Pacific Northwes...
Located on the eastern shore of Tacoma's Thea Foss Waterway, the J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corporation built pleasure boats, fishing vessels, and an assortment of ships for the U.S. Navy and Coast G...
Standing at an official height of 14,410 feet -- 14,411 feet by more recent, unofficial measurements -- Mount Rainier became the nation's fifth national park in 1899 and is an iconic symbol and centra...
The town of Wilkeson is located in Pierce County some 20 miles directly southeast of Tacoma. Starting in the 1870s, coal mining fueled the town's rise, was a predominant force in its history, and cont...
On January 26, 1904, H. C. Rizer, chief clerk of the United States Geological Survey, confirms in a letter to Tacoma artist Abby Williams Hill that a previously unnamed peak in the North Cascades will...
On July 18, 1909, the people of Wilkeson, a thriving coal-mining center in the Pierce County foothills, celebrate the town's incorporation. The official incorporation and celebration come several days...
On November 22, 1930, federal judge George M. Bourquin finds Peter T. Storbo, president of the Mount Rainier Mining Company, and Orton E. Goodwin guilty of mail fraud. In 1927, Storbo's mining company...
On August 17, 1962, the J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corporation in Tacoma launches the USS High Point (PCH-1, short for Patrol Craft Hydrofoil 1), the Navy's first hydrofoil patrol boat. Bui...
On December 4, 1975, heavy rains flood the Nisqually River, causing it to breach the dike surrounding the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge (later the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually Wildlife Refuge), allo...