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The Meeker Mansion Museum is a historic house in Puyallup, Washington, United States. It is the second of two homes in the city which were resided in by Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker, the first one being a cabin on the homestead claim which Meeker as well as Hunter Thompson and Will Brines purchased from Jerry Stilly in 1862. This was a one ...
Meeker Mansion was built in 1890 and used to house Ezra Meeker, the first mayor of Puyallup, and his wife Eliza Jane. The Puyallup Historical Society acquired the mansion around 1970.
Ezra Meeker's grave, Puyallup, Washington. Meeker was again advocating better roads, and gained the support of Henry Ford, [110] who built him a Model A car with a covered wagon-style top, dubbed the Oxmobile, to be used in another expedition over the Trail to publicize Meeker's highway proposals.
Ezra Meeker Mansion. August 26, 1971 321 Pioneer Ave., E. ... Puyallup: Built in 1875, this 17-room house was the home of Oregon Trail migrant Ezra Meeker. [16] 22:
Meeker Mansion . The home of Puyallup’s founder and first mayor, Ezra Manning Meeker, and his family, was built in 1890 using the profits from Meeker’s successful hops business.He was one of ...
Ezra Meeker (near lower right) at the 1926 dedication of his own statue by Alonzo Victor Lewis in Puyallup's Pioneer Park, on the site of his original cabin. The Puyallup Valley was originally inhabited by the Puyallup people, known in their language as the spuyaləpabš, meaning "generous and welcoming behavior to all people (friends and strangers) who enter our lands."
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The line was then converted to standard gauge and electrified. Upon completion of the initial line the last spike was driven by the nephew of Ezra Meeker, Frank Oliver Meeker on June 29, 1890. Frank owned the land near the southwest corner of the newly incorporated City of Puyallup and near where the street car line first entered the city limits.