Print, Photograph

Photograph

Lewis County Historical Museum

Plaque in Lewis Co. Courthouse

Origformat: Print-Photographic

Name/Title

Print, Photograph

Entry/Object ID

P245

Description

Photo of plaque in Lewis County Courthouse, WA. Plaque has a relief of Meriwether Lewis and reads: Meriwether Lewis, In 1845 the provisional government of Oregon formed the territory lying north of the Columbia River and west of the Cowlitz River into a single county known as Lewis, named after Meriwether Lewis. who with William Clark in 1805 led the first overland expedition into the Pacific Northwest. The first Courthouse erected in Washington was built on Jackson Prairie in Lewis County in 1851. This building erected A.D. 1927, Board of County Commissioners: L. A. Stahl, Henry Rayton, B. H. Stacy, J. De Forest Griffin, A.I.A.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Courthouses - Lewis County, Lewis County Courthouse, Lewis County Courthouse - Chehalis

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Date

Nov 6, 2008

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Lewis, Meriwether Captain (Explorer)

General Notes

Note

Status: Stable

Created By

[email protected]

Create Date

November 6, 2008

Updated By

[email protected]

Update Date

November 13, 2024