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Tumwater Falls of the Deschutes River. Tumwater is a city in Thurston County, Washington, United States.The population was 25,350 at the 2020 census. [4] The city is situated near where the Deschutes River enters Budd Inlet, the southernmost point of Puget Sound; it also borders the state capital of Olympia to the north.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Thurston County, Washington, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
Lower Tumwater Falls emptying into Capitol Lake adjacent to the old Olympia Brewery. Tumwater Falls was the site of New Market, the first European settlement in Western Washington. It was also the site of the now-defunct Olympia Brewing Company. A footbridge across the falls was constructed in the 1860s, and the current bridge dates to around 1890.
There are numerous parks along its course, including Pioneer Park and Tumwater Falls Park.A popular tubing stretch runs from Pioneer Park to Tumwater Falls.. The Chehalis Western Trail parallels the river for a stretch of 2 miles (3.2 km), allowing users direct views and access to the river.
Thurston County is bisected by Interstate 5, the major north–south freeway on the U.S. West Coast that connects Washington, Oregon, and California. [63] The freeway travels through Grand Mound, Tumwater, Olympia, and Lacey and continues south to Portland, Oregon, and north to Tacoma and Seattle.
The Pacific Highway was built in the 1910s and 1920s by the states of California, Oregon, and Washington, and was later incorporated into U.S. Route 99 (US 99) in 1926. I-5 largely follows the route of US 99, with the exception of portions south of Los Angeles and in the Central Valley of California.
The Crosby House is a historic house and museum in Tumwater, Washington built c. 1860 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] [3] It is part of the Tumwater Historic District. The house was built by Nathaniel Crosby III and Cordelia Crosby (born Cordelia Jane Smith), grandparents of Bing Crosby. [4]
A road following the Milwaukee Road from Littlerock to Maytown and continuing north towards Bush Prairie in modern-day Tumwater was constructed by the 1910s. [8] [9] Millersylvania State Park was established in 1924 and the north–south road through it (named Tilley Road) was improved and paved by its Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the 1930s.