The country about Camp Lewis

The following exerpt is from the Bulletin, Issues 12-18 by the Washington Geological Survey in which the Human History about camp lewis by E. S. Meany.

“May 30th, 1833, Thursday. Arrived here this afternoon from the Columbia with four men, four oxen and four horses, after a journey of fourteen days, expecting to have found the schooner Vancouver lying here. She sailed the afternoon of the same day we started, with trading goods, provisions, potatoes, seeds, etc., bound for Nisqually Bay, where we have now determined, should everything come up to expectation, to locate an establishment.” [Read more...]