National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington state
Historical Marker Database
Reddit Post by Czarrie
So I've been looking for some older portals near me that never really "fell into the game". Usually these lie on the outskirts of towns and out in the rural areas where few players tend to investigate. Most people have not submitted portals out here, but there are portals to be found -- the initial population of HMdb.org portals that Niantic brought into the game.
What is the HMdb.org database?
The Historical Marker Database is pretty much what it sounds like; it's an online collection of historical markers across the globe (primarily in the United States) from cemetery markers to roadside signs. At the time of their placement, these signs were designed to remind people of long-gone buildings and other areas of historical interest (battlefields, older businesses, etc) but the signs themselves have become a bit of historical interest as time rolls on. They can be located pretty much anywhere, even hundreds of miles from the nearest town in some special cases. HMdb.org rolls these up into a database with GPS coordinates, sign titles, and full or partial transcriptions.
What does this have to do with Ingress? If you've been playing for awhile, surely you've noticed that, outside of art displays and such, you tend to run across portals located at these markers, especially if you're a rural player. This is because Niantic auto-populated a large number of portals by using the aforementioned HMdb.org database. As a result, if it's on the HMdb.org and available to the public, it is almost assuredly an Ingress portal, as well.
So how can I use this information to my advantage? First, visit the GPX download page on the hmdb. This is a list of files you can download that have all of the aforementioned markers available for any specific area; in the United States, it's usually sorted in a traditional State->County manner. I recommend limiting the download to just a couple of counties in this case -- too many data points is going to be an issue for later, so we're trying to keep it under 1,000.
Next, visit this handy little page called GPSVisualizer. Ignore most of the options except for "Upload your GPS file here". Take whatever .gpx files you just downloaded and upload them here, followed by "Draw the Map!".
Congrats, you now have a nice, populated map of every HMdb.org marker in your area -- cross-referenced with the Ingress Intel map, you can use this to find extremely remote portals that essentially no one was aware of, very useful if you're trying to make some big, nice fields or set up a hard-to-reach farm. Also, extremely interesting from the stand-point of learning about your local area, but that's just a bonus :)
http://www.reddit.com/r/Ingress/comments/1kxisl/fun_with_the_hmdborg/
Bruceport Park - Willapa Harbor
Bruceport County Park
Five miles south of South Bend on Hwy 101
Campsites and RV hook-ups, picnic areas, beach trail. Originally a sparsely populated Indian village called “Wa-Hoot-San” or “Hwa’hots”, Bruce Boys Camp was settled by the crew of a schooner called “Robert Bruce” in 1851 after a disgruntled cook burned the schooner to the keel.
Submitted on 9/29/2013
Buildings in Tenino, Washington
National Register of Historic Places listings in Thurston County, Washington
Short History of Tenino
Notes:
Stephen Hodgdon -
His land was located directly on the old Oregon Trail at the point where it turned north to Tumwater and the Hudson’s Bay Company trail continued eastward to Yelm Prairie and Fort Nisqually.
It wasn’t long before the Hodgdon Farm was referred to as “Hodgdon’s Station” and became a regular stop on the stagecoach road from the Columbia to Olympia. Soon Samuel Davenport took up an adjoining land claim to the west, and B. J. Henness settled on the east side of the present townsite.
In 1872, the railroad from the Columbia reached Hodgdon’s farm and a station was built and named “Tenino”.
Fred Brown -
Brown had moved along with the railroad construction crews in a tent store until reaching Tenino, and apparently decided this was a good place to settle down. Joining the depot and the store to form the nucleus of a town was a hotel owned and operated by William Huston. “Uncle Billy”
sandstone quarry. S. W. Fenton and George VanTine located a good grade of building stone on the hill south of Tenino and began an industry that changed Tenino from a sleepy little whistle stop to a bustling town.
Sandstone Quarry -
S. W. Fenton and George VanTine located a good grade of building stone on the hill south of Tenino and began an industry that changed Tenino from a sleepy little whistle stop to a bustling town.
VanTine and Fenton’s Tenino Stone Company was located on the site of the present city park and pool, and began shipping out stone in 1889.
A second quarry soon followed east on the Military Road. It was called the Eureka Sandstone Company.
A third quarry was located on Lemon Hill, west of Tenino in the early 1900’s by H. P. Scheel and William McArthur under the name Hercules Stone Company.
Mentzer Brothers’ Mill -
Jonis Spar Company -
Skookumchuck Mill -
By 1905, Tenino had four grocery stores, two meat markets, a half-dozen saloons, three hotels, two dry goods stores with jewelry stores, cigar stores, confectioners, and even a stationer.
thermal-electric generating plant -
In 1967 announcement was made of the proposed building of a thermal-electric generating plant in the Hanaford Valley south of Tenino, and the re-opening of the once active Tono coal fields. The plant went into operation in the fall of 1971.
Links:
Thurston County Pioneers Before 1870 - Pioneer Location Info & More
http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/pioneer/index.htm
Source:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~washingtonparish/blog/tenino.txt
WISAARD
The Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (DAHP)
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WISAARD:
http://www.dahp.wa.gov/learn-and-research/find-a-historic-place
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