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Spanaway, WA - History
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Welcome to the Spanaway Home page. The Spanaway Home page provides as much information as possible on Spanaway. Knowing Spanaway’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Spanaway’s Home page, you will also find Spanaway’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Spanaway has a population of 33776. 51.6% of Spanaway’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.4 are female. 53.2% of Spanaway is married and 72% own their own home. The Average Home price is $274,408, and the average rent is $1,378. Household median income in Spanaway is $76,447, and the individual median income is $37,137. Spanaway’s Ethnic is the following: White(57.9%), Hispanic(13.7%), Multiple(12.7%), Black(11.6%), Asian(7.1%), Pacific(5.9%), Other(3.8%), Native(1.1%).
The Hudson's Bay Company, headquartered at Fort Nisqually, had control of this region until 1863. Company maps and journals show the company's subsidiary, the Pugets Sound Agricultural Company, raised cattle, grain, and sheep at "Spanueh Station" on the south and east shores of "Spanueh Lake." Spanueh is the Hudson Bay Company's spelling of the native Lushootseed spadue, which means "dug roots" referring to an area where camas and other edible roots can be found.
Lushootseed underwent a loss of nasal consonants in the 1800s, so "Spanueh" simply transcribes an older pronunciation of what is now "Spadue".The first white settler to take a donation claim by the lake, Henry de la Bushalier, tried to rename the lake after himself. That faded away with his death one year later.
In 1890 the area was renamed "Lake Park" as a planned community by the Lake Park Land, Railway and Improvement Company, which bought all the nearby land east of the lake and built a rail line to its "recreation mecca" on the shore of "Spanaway Lake." When Mount Rainier National Park was established in 1899, tourists would take the train to its terminus in Lake Park and from there make the two-day journey to Mount Rainier, making Spanaway the original "gateway" to Mount Rainier.
The journey was made by stagecoach, with an overnight stop in Eatonville; the route was in operation as early as 1893.Although the U.S. Board on Geographic Names recognized the community of "Lake Park" in 1897, it had to very belatedly reverse its decision in 1970 to accept common usage: Spanaway (Spanueh).
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