Get an ADT-Monitored Home Security System in Olympia, Washington

Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county chair and largest city of Thurston County. It is 60 miles (100 km) southwest of the state’s most populous city, Seattle, and is a cultural middle of the southern Puget Sound region.

European settlers claimed the Place in 1846, with the Treaty of Medicine Creek initiated in 1854, followed by the Treaty of Olympia in 1856. Olympia was incorporated as a town upon January 28, 1859, and as a city in 1882. It had a population of 55,605 at the get older of the 2020 census, making it the state’s 23rd-largest city. Olympia borders Lacey to the east and Tumwater to the south.

The site of Olympia had been home to Lushootseed-speaking peoples known as the Steh-Chass (or Stehchass, later portion of the post-treaty Squaxin Island Tribe) for thousands of years. Other Native Americans regularly visited the head of Budd Inlet and the Steh-Chass, including the new ancestor tribes of the Squaxin, as competently as the Nisqually, Puyallup, Chehalis, Suquamish, and Duwamish. The first recorded Europeans came to Olympia in 1792. Peter Puget and a crew from the British Vancouver Expedition are said to have explored the site, but neither recorded any encounters with the resident Indigenous population. In 1846, Edmund Sylvester and Levi Lathrop Smith jointly claimed the house that is now downtown Olympia. In 1851, the U.S. Congress established the Customs District of Puget Sound for Washington Territory and Olympia became the house of the customs house. Its population steadily expanded from Oregon Trail immigrants. In 1850, the town settled upon the state Olympia, at local resident Colonel Isaac N. Ebey’s suggestion, because of its view of the Olympic Mountains to the northwest. The Place began to be served by a small fleet of steamboats known as the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.