Quick visit to Martha Lake Airport Park
- When redirects are implemented, change to a standard URL for Wikimedia-hosted pictures.
- A clearing in the woods across the street from Martha Lake Airport Park. I’m unclear if this is a segment of the park, or undeveloped land. Something was once here and has since been removed. The land is flat with gravel and moss. On the other side of the clearing is a mound and the edge of the woods. The trees are thin and without leaves. A trail goes across the clearing to the woods.
- Nisqually Chief Quiemuth is murdered in Olympia on November 19, 1856. (historylink.org)
In the early-morning hours of November 19, 1856, Nisqually Chief Quiemuth (d. 1856), a half-brother of Chief Leschi (1808-1858), is murdered in Olympia. Both Leschi and Quiemuth had fought white settlers and soldiers in the Indian Wars of 1855 and 1856, but Quiemuth had tired of war, and shortly after Leschi’s capture, had surrendered into the custody of Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens (1818-1862). Later the same night, as he is resting in Stevens’s home while awaiting transfer to Fort Steilacoom, he is shot and stabbed to death. The assailant will never be positively identified and no one will ever be convicted of the crime.
