![]() ![]() The Byrd family was prominent in local affairs. The January, 1876 term of the Pierce County Commissioners gave the name of Byrd Creek to Chambers or Steilacoom Creek when they appointed Stephen Judson to survey for a bridge across the creek. after a Bureau of Prisons engineer who had been particularly helpful to the institution." He was born February 2, 1792, and died December 14, 1862.īutterworth Lake was created by damming Eden Creek on McNeil Island to provide an adequate supply of water for the prison located there. Bruce, served for a number of years as the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Station of the Royal Navy. The Inskip map of 1846 named that part of Carr Inlet which lies between McNeil and Fox Islands’ Bruce Channel, while the Wilkes Expedition called it Brackenridge Passage.Īn Anglo-Irish family, the Baronets Bruce of Downhill, had several naval officers in the family who were contemporary with Inskip. Clay from Anderson Island was used in the 1830s for bricks at Fort Nisqually. Betsey Cammon wrote that Anderson Islanders called it Brickyard Point for the buildings erected on the east side of the point in 1888-89. This name was given to Jacobs Point on Anderson Island between Oro and East Oro Bays. His dried plants became the nucleus of the collection of the Division of Plants of the United States National Museum. Returning to Washington, D.C., Brackenridge set up a greenhouse. ![]() Brackenridge, a horticulturalist who cared for the plant specimens of the expedition. It was named by the Wilkes Expedition for William D. Bolton owned the property.īrackenridge Passage is that part of Carr Inlet in Puget Sound between Fox Island and McNeil Island. The place was known as “Bolton’s” while Mr. The actual site of William Bolton's ship repair and building facility was on Puget Sound, north of Chambers Bay on the shoreline between Steilacoom and Days Island. The Hudson's Bay Company had a sheep park or pasture on the plain, which is on the flat lands above Puget Sound. He was the first ship builder in the region, producing three sixty-ton schooners. He had a six hundred forty acre Donation Land Claim on Puget Sound south of Days Island and north of Steilacoom. discussing what to name the post office when a bee buzzed by."īolton Plain, north of Chambers Creek, was named for William Bolton who came to the Pacific Northwest in 1849. The main buildings of the prison are at Bee.Īnderson Island’s Betsey Cammon recorded that ". There was an extensive apiary (beehouse) on the island when the prison was established. The word means "an open place." The plain stretched from South Tacoma to Yelm and from the Nisqually River to east of Spanaway.īee, a settlement on the south shore of McNeil Island, was once a post office. The Nisqually Plains were called Bau-kum by the Indians. The firm of Balch and Webber had a portable sawmill in operation at several locations on Puget Sound for a number of years before 1862. This was an early name for Glen Cove which honored Lafayette Balch, the founder of Steilacoom. He died on November 25, 1862, on a business trip to San Francisco. He had a home, a store, was involved in land sales, and maintained a shipping business and a portable sawmill. After an inspection of possible town sites he decided to locate where Steilacoom is now situated. He arrived at Fort Nisqually in December of 1850. He went to sea as a young man and become captain of a ship owned by his father. Captain Balch was born February 3, 1825, in Trescott, Maine. Louise Lake, east of Steilacoom, was once named Balch Lake for Lafayette Balch, the founder of Steilacoom. Anderson was cordial to Wilkes and offered ".every assistance in their power to aid.operations." Anderson who was in charge at Fort Nisqually during the early 1840s. Exploring Expedition of 1841 for Alexander C. The Netherlands-American Manufacturing Company owned land on the bay in 1924.Īnderson Island is located in Puget Sound opposite Nisqually Reach. The Metsker Map of Pierce County records the inlet on the west side of Anderson Island as Amsterdam Bay and the community as New Amsterdam. It was named American Plain for the same reasons for the naming of American Lake. The plain is listed as Third Division Prairie on some maps. Richmond whose wife's first name was America.”Ī plat for the town of American Lake was filed April 4, 1890, by the Tacoma and Lake City Railway and Navigation Company.Īmerican Plain is north of Sequalitchew Lake and west of American Lake on what is now North Fort Lewis. it was never formally named, but on account of the American celebration of the Fourth of July in 1841 and the residence of missionaries and settlers from the United States it was called American Lake or Richmond Lake after the Methodist missionary Dr. The Tacoma Ledger of July 9, 1890, reports that ". American Lake is north of Interstate Highway Five near Fort Lewis. ![]()
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