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Borowick as well as Walter Rueckel and Mike Powell of the Brunswick CWRT, John Bamberl of the Scottsdale CWRT, and Michael Movius of the Puget Sound CWRT, have hosted conferences attended by representatives from various roundtables based throughout the U.S. and Canada to discuss methods to increase collaboration among roundtables and related ...
The Puget Sound War began over land rights and ended in a cloud of controversy surrounding the hanging of Chief Leschi. The catalyst of the war was the Treaty of Medicine Creek of 1854. [1] Negotiated by Isaac Stevens, then governor of the Washington Territory, the treaty preserved Indian fishing rights, but took away prime Nisqually farmland. [2]
The McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC) was a prison in the northwest United States, operated by the Washington State Department of Corrections.It was on McNeil Island in Puget Sound in unincorporated Pierce County, [1] near Steilacoom, Washington.
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Civil War: 1862: 1865: 1865: Earthwork, nothing remains South Carolina: Fort Fremont: Saint Helena Island: Port Royal Sound: Endicott: 1899: 1914: 1921: South Carolina: Fort Welles/Fort Walker: Hilton Head Island: Port Royal Sound: Civil War, Endicott: 1861: 1902: 1902: Had a dynamite gun emplacement South Carolina: Fort Marion/Beaufort Battery ...
The Fish Wars were a series of civil disobedience protests by Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. These protests, coordinated by tribes around the Puget Sound, pressured the U.S. government to recognize fishing rights granted by the Treaty of Medicine Creek.
Medical services expanded before the war to include navy personnel and their dependents throughout Puget Sound. [2] To meet the war needs, temporary wood frame structures were established. An H-type temporary wards and temporary barracks for Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service (WAVES) was added in 1943. The WAVES performed clerical ...
Washington Territory before the Civil War was the most remote place in the United States from the theater of conflict. Additionally, Washington Territory only had peace with the local Indians for three years when the Civil War began and the few settlers there were just recovering from the fear and economic strain those wars had caused them.