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The Yakima War (1855–1858), also referred to as the Plateau War or Yakima Indian War, [1] was a conflict between the United States and the Yakama, a Sahaptian-speaking people of the Northwest Plateau, then part of Washington Territory, and the tribal allies of each.
Plans to build a Puyallup Valley Cultural Heritage Center near the mansion at 312 Spring St. are in the works. The heritage center will highlight many groups that helped build the community ...
The city lies within the Puyallup Valley, an agricultural region that produces berries and daffodils, for which the annual local festival is named. [ 15 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 14.04 square miles (36.36 km 2 ), of which 13.93 square miles (36.08 km 2 ) is land and 0.11 square miles (0.28 km ...
The name "Puyallup" is an anglicization of the Lushootseed word spuyaləpabš.The name means "people of the bend (at the bottom of the river)," [2] literally s√puy=áləp=abš, from the root √puy̓, 'curve'; the suffix =alap, 'leg or hip'; and the suffix =abš, 'people', [1] and refers to the way that the Puyallup people live on the winding river. [3]
Starting as social media chair for the organization’s local Puyallup Valley post, he proceeded to land higher positions at both the district and state levels; in the midst of his ascent, he was ...
Families are still living at a Puyallup mobile home park that was initially scheduled to close a few months ago. As of Dec. 1, 15 families are still living at Meridian Mobile Estates at 202 27th ...
In 1902, the partnership ended, and Emmett Hunt took over the Crest on the Gig Harbor route. and appears to have continued in business until at least 1907 as the Hunt Steamboat Company. Arthur M. Hunt kept Sentinel and the sternwheeler Clara Brown. In 1905, Arthur M. Hunt and Frank Bibbins formed the Tacoma and Burton Navigation Company.
The Electron Lahar, also known as the Electron Mudflow, was a lahar in the U.S. state of Washington that descended from the summit and sunset amphitheater on Mount Rainier about 500 years ago. [1]