I was recently in the Northwest room of the Tacoma Public Library, looking for information about Spanaway Park. The librarian found this rare book about the period when the lake was a water source for the City of Tacoma. Without going into detail, use of the lake for water only lasted from 1899 to 1905….
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LeMay Car Show Saturday, August 25
35th Annual LeMay Car Show + Auction & Swap Meet August 25, 2012 – 9:00am-5:00pm (Story from the LeMay Family Collection website) The LeMay Car Show has been an annual tradition for more than 30 years. Our show is an amazing assortment of over 1,000 vintage vehicles with additional collections of dolls, antiques, and other…
Shady Acres Airport, 50th Anniversary Fly-In
On Saturday, September 1st at 2pm there will be a 50th Anniversary fly-in potluck for everyone that has been a resident owner or grew up at Shady Acres Airport. The event is at the Wicklander hangar. Those who have lived at Shady Acres will know where that is. For those of you who don’t know…
Northover Cabin? on Commercial Lot For Sale
This cabin, built by the daughter of a Hudson’s bay Employee and her husband was dismantled from its original lot and moved tothis location ont he Mountain Highway. i had the pleasure of looking over the building last week and noted that the oversided red bricks that are on all that period’s buildings are also ont his cabin’s firepalce. There bricke are found in Henry Murray’s house on 260th St. and int he officers quarter’s fireplaces at Fort Steilacoom. Thank you Jessie Richards for pointing out the background on this building. I have chatted with Pierce County planning regarding it’s historic natore and they are researching it now.
Celebrate! Spanaway Business Directory
A few years ago, members of the Celebrate! Spanaway group created a Spanaway Business Directory with the help of Pierce County Councilwoman Barbara Gelman and the Pierce County Office of Economic Development. Use it to find services in the area. The Celebrate! Spanaway Committee was formed in the late 1990’s by Jean Sensel, a business owner…
Celebrate! Spanaway was fun, don’t miss the Garfield Street Fair August 18th
The last weekend of July was the Celebrate Spanaway street fair, held at the Marymount Event Center. Since this blog is new, we weren’t around to tell you about it in advance. It was probably one of the reasons we realized we needed a local paper to let you know what’s happening out there. So…
Roadway changes on 176th Street in Spanaway.
Pierce County is widening 176th Street to five lanes. The current work is between 14th Avenue and Waller Road. Traffic dring the daytime is affected and you may have to wait longer than expected to reach your destination. If you know alternate routes, you might want to take them.
Pierce Prairie Post 