Olympia

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 601

Olympia, capital of Washington state, on a peninsula at the south end of Puget's Sound, some 65 miles from the Pacific Ocean, and 121 miles by rail N. of Portland, Oregon. The Des Chutes River, which enters the sound here, provides abundant water-power, and the town has flour and saw mills, boot-factories, &c. Pop. 4698.

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