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Whitman Mission National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located just west of Walla Walla, Washington, at the site of the former Whitman Mission at Waiilatpu. On November 29, 1847, Dr. Marcus Whitman , his wife Narcissa Whitman , and 11 others were slain by Native Americans of the Cayuse .
The National Register recognizes places of national, state, or local historic significance across the United States. [1] Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [ 2 ] Washington is home to approximately 1,500, [ 3 ] and 36 of those are found in Whitman County.
Historians soon began recommending preservation of sites relating to human history. [5] Congress created Colonial National Monument in 1930 to protect the Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown battlefield in Virginia as one of the first new historical areas, and it was renamed a national historical park in 1936. [5]
[4] [13] In 1936, the site was designated as a historic site, Whitman National Monument, and January 1, 1963, as a National Historic Site. [19] Old Mission, Waiilatpu. On July 24, 1846, Pope Pius IX established the Diocese of Walla Walla and appointed Augustin-Magloire Blanchet to become the first Bishop of Walla Walla.
Whitman Mission National Historic Site was established in 1936 to preserve the location of the mission and surrounding land. In 1997, the NPS stopped referring to the historical event as the "Whitman massacre" calling it the "Tragedy at Waiilatpu" [ 1 ] in an attempt to more neutrally and holistically describe not only the murder of the ...
Tensions erupted 1847 when the Cayuse attacked the Whitman Mission, see Whitman massacre. According to Cayuse tradition, there was no question of their right to dispose of a doctor (medicine man, or tewat) whose patients were dying of disease. In the eyes of the Cayuse, Whitman was a "healer but couldn't heal." [4]
Marcus Whitman (September 4, 1802 – November 29, 1847) was an American physician and missionary. He is most well-known for leading American settlers across the Oregon Trail, unsuccessfully attempting to Christianize the Cayuse Indians, and was subsequently killed by the Cayuse Indians in a event known as the 1847 Whitman massacre, over a misunderstanding, resulting in the beginning of the ...
A 2/3 life-size plaster model was given to Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington in the 1950s; and it currently resides indoors at the Fort Walla Walla Museum in Walla Walla. A 4/3 life-size bronze statue copy resides indoors at the Washington State Capitol Building in Olympia, Washington .