Oliver Perry Meeker
During the winter of 1851 near Indianapolis, twenty-four-year-old Oliver Perry Meeker and a group of friends and neighbors …Read More
Midland History
Ezra Meeker’s Biggest Blunder
In March 1889 Ezra Meeker committed one of his biggest blunders ever, he was caught and admitted to bribing Puyallup Indians with money for their vote to approve a right of way through the Puyallup Indian Reservation.
Donation Land Claim Act of 1850
An Act to create the Office of Surveyor-General of the Public Lands in Oregon, and to provide for …Read More
Olympic Land Company
The Olympic Land, Loan, and Trust Company was incorporated on October 29, 1889 by George W. McAllister, president, …Read More
Midland’s Fire Station #63
In early 1942, community leaders of Midland came up with a very novel idea of how to put …Read More