- see if Stevens County, Stevens Pass, Lake Stevens, Stevens Seattle, etc. are namesakes (probably are)
- Treaty of Point Elliott, 1855 (historylink.org)
The Point Elliott Treaty was signed on January 22, 1855, by Isaac Stevens (1818-1862), Governor of Washington Territory, and by Duwamish Chief Seattle, Snoqualmie Chief Patkanim, Lummi Chief Chow-its-hoot, and other chiefs, subchiefs, and delegates of tribes, bands, and villages. Following is the complete text of the treaty.
- The [Steilacoom] site was very fine for a city, with a good roadstead, but its ambitious beginning was rudely curtained into a suburb of Tacoma, which did not spring up until twenty years later. The congress that closed on the 3rd of March, 1853, had created the Territory of Washington, and President Pierce appointed I.I.Stevens, an ex-army officer, Governor. The new administration made many removals, among them Judge Strong, and Agent Starling. The news of the changes did not come to us until early in the month of May, and were matters of great moment to the people.
- Mill Ditch to Round Lake Hike (OregonHikers.org)
The Georgia-Pacific Paper Mill, with its broad columns of steam slowly billowing skyward, is the dominant feature of the small city of Camas. The town’s industrial history goes back a long way - to the first sawmills of the 1850s. In 1884, Henry Pittock’s LaCamas Colony Company used Chinese laborers to construct a 7,000-foot ditch that would carry water from Round Lake to its new mill on the site of the current Georgia-Pacific operation. This aqueduct is still in operation and serving its original purpose; indeed, hikers have to chance to walk much of the ditch as well as connect to its source at Mill Pond in Lacamas Park, where they can also make use of a much wider network of trails.