This ain’t a tape recording saying that I did it

Love that drive

That totally makes sense. Thanks for the link-- I was aware because I grew in Carnation, and my dad worked for Carnation Farms for 30 years haha.

Apparently the Surveyor General James Tilton who signed this has an interesting story too.

A couple years after this survey in 1860 his 12 year old slave Charles Mitchell was contacted by free black people in Victoria (still under British control), after which he stowed away on a ship. When discovered, he was arrested but two days later was granted freedom. James Tilton protested and was featured in newspapers as far away as San Francisco.

Tilton later worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. and was supposedly the first to summit Denny Mountain at Snoqualmie Pass. Perhaps the first Euro-American to do so, since people have been in the region since at least the early Holocene epoch.

I moved to Vancouver at the end of 2019 and I have some of the best friends of my life. 10-12 great friends. Definitely had to put myself out there, though. Bumble BFF and Facebook groups were mostly how I found my people!

I have been here for about five years and still have not made one friend!

"Tolthu" is probably closer to the Lushootseed, which does have a rounded "kwuh" sound at the end (tultxʷ). The Tolt-Carnation-Tolt-Carnation naming yoyo is a fun story if you weren't familiar

"Orcus Island" is a clue to the fact it has nothing to do with the whales; it's just a shortening of one the explorer's patrons named Horcasitas.

Also fun to see the original landscape of the city. No Harbor Island, no "Duwamish Lake" canals. The fanciful Dungeness Spit.

He says in his posting he has seen West/ central and he is looking at eastern WA. We apparently have different interpretations of eastern WA. You consider everything East of the cascades eastern WA. I don’t - I consider Ritzville Davenport and East of Ritzville Davenport on i90 eastern Wa. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Were you able to click on it to open a new tab and zoom in? You should be able to see all details and place names that way.

This is just from a photo and eventually I want to make a high res scan.

Neat stuff. I’d read that when Vancouver named all the stuff he “discovered”, he and his crew only considered the area south of the Tacoma Narrows to be the Puget Sound. Looks like that’s reflected in this map, and the name is crammed into that small area.

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I'd kill to find a high res of this map

I found this map of early WA territory and the place names are really interesting, especially the transliterated ones from Salish languages.

The Tolt River, which today supplies Seattle's water, is "Tolthu", and flows into the "Snoquatmoo" river.

Mount Si was named "Mount Filzhugh"

Mount "Reinier" (though the Oregon town Rainier already had the "a")

Gray's Harbor is wetland.

"Seatl", "Dwamish", "Skywhamish", "Bellevue or San Juan Island", "Juan de Fuga", "Olimpia Range", "Quinaiuth River", "Skookum Chuck"

Where is this ranch?

Same. Transplants have been the only people willing to put in any effort for social interactions or consistent friendships.

Oh lord. As far as the person posting the question, its all eastern Washington. Subgroupings are irrelevant to the context of the question.

That will be me once i move. We got this hooman!

I moved here in october and still don’t have 1 friend.

You know you've been on reddit too much when you read "Taken out by highway" and immediately assume someone got murdered.

God, I love the landscape in front of that mountain. There's just so much to see and you really get the ridiculous scope of it all.

Why ?

St. Helens is quite an impressive sight to see. I highly recommend views from the rim of the crater! So worth the long hike.

Going to try that! Thank you !!

I think it’s easier with a hobby, try joining A local group with something you’re interested in. Even that can be hard. I’ve been here almost two years and have one or two friends but it’s even hard to get together

Yup, that's Glacier Creek coming out of the background joining the North Fork Toutle River in the foreground. Shot from Johnston Ridge.