Bigelow Neighborhood, also called the Bigelow Historic District, is a
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
located on the eastside of
Olympia, Washington
Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat and largest city of Thurston County. It is southwest of the state's most populous city, Seattle, and is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region.
European ...
. It is located along Olympia Avenue, between East Bay Drive and Tullis Street.
About
The neighborhood is named after an early homesteader,
Daniel Bigelow
Daniel Bigelow (24 March 1824 – 15 September 1905) was a American pioneer, pioneer lawyer and politician in Olympia, Washington.
Biography
Daniel Richardson Bigelow was born March 24, 1824, in Belleville a hamlet in the township of Ellisburg, ...
. His historic home, now the
Bigelow House Museum, is located at 918 Glass Ave. and was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1987. There are several other historic houses in the neighborhood dating back to the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Nearby Bigelow Park, located on part of the original Bigelow
Donation Land Claim
The Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, sometimes known as the Donation Land Act, was a statute enacted by the United States Congress in late 1850, intended to promote homestead settlements in the Oregon Territory. It followed the Distribution-Preem ...
is among Olympia's oldest.
[(nd]
Bigelow Neighborhood Park
City of Olympia. Retrieved 6/21/07.
See also
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History of Olympia, Washington
The history of Olympia, Washington, includes long-term habitation by Native Americans, charting by a famous English explorer, settlement of the town in the 1840s, the controversial siting of a state college in the 1960s and the ongoing development ...
References
Geography of Olympia, Washington
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