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Puyallup
Puyallup has a rich cultural history all its own in this valley town just East of Tacoma. Its named for the indigenous population of Native Americans, and the name means “generous people”. Ezra Meeker, pioneer of the Oregon Trail, settled in the valley and planned the town in 1877. The fertile and rich soil of the valley lends itself naturally to a diversified plant life, including hops, berries, ...
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Lakewood
Lakewood is a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States. Lakewood was officially incorporated on February 28, 1996. Historical names include Lakewood Center and Lakes District. Lakewood is the second-largest city in Pierce County and is home to the Clover Park School District, the Lakes Water District, Fort Steilacoom Park and Western State Hospital, a regional state psychiatric hospital.
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University Place
University Place is a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States. Its population was 31,144 at the 2010 census. Based on per capita income, University Place ranks 81st of 522 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked.
University Place received its name in the 1800s when the University of Puget Sound, a private liberal-arts college in North Tacoma, purchased land along the primary ...
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Tacoma
Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city in and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third largest in the state. It also serves as the center of business activity for the South Sound region, which has a population of around 1 million people. Like most central cities, Tacoma suffered a prolonged decline in the mi...
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Roy
Roy is a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States. Roy was officially incorporated on January 16, 1908. It is a rural city outside Tacoma and primarily features ranch-style homes and farms. Roy was one of the early communities in the area, a prosperous boom-town and a major stop on the railroad line. But 3 major blows reduced this once-thriving town to its current form. A major fire in 192...
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DuPont
The Nisqually tribe arrived in the area at least 5700 years ago, subsisting on shellfish from the beaches and salmon from Sequalitchew Creek. Captain George Vancouver mapped the area in 1792, and in 1833, the Hudson’s Bay Company established a fur trading post at Fort Nisqually. The fort was relocated upstream in 1843.
DuPont was officially incorporated on March 26, 1912, and was re-i...
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Yelm
Yelm is a city in Thurston County, Washington, United States. Yelm ranked 10th of 279 eligible incorporated communities in the state of Washington for population growth between 2000 and 2010. To a large extent, Yelm acts as a bedroom community for residents working in the surrounding cities of Tacoma, Olympia, and Centralia. Yelm also hosts a large number of military families who are currently or ...
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Tumwater
For many years Tumwater was well known regionally as the home of the Olympia Brewing Company. The company began producing beer in 1896 at a site along the Deschutes River and continued until Prohibition. After Prohibition ended, a new brewery was erected just upstream from the original site. This brewery was eventually purchased by SABMiller and closed on July 1, 2003.
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Olympia
Olympia is the capital city of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County. The median income for a household in the city was $40,846, and the median income for a family was $54,136. Males had a median income of $41,267 versus $31,515 for females. The per capita income for the city was $22,590. About 6.9% of families and 12.1% of the population were below the poverty line, ...
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