Tacoma
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- Names
Tacoma
Chebaulip
Commencement City
Commencement Bay
T'kopt
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Commencement Bay of Puget Sound; name is derived from Amerindian name for Mount Rainier; Swedish settler Nicholas de Lin began sawmill business here, providing employment for settlers in area; today is a center for lumbering & shipping.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- AAA: Oregon/Washington (1993); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Born
Dale Chihuly (American, born 1941)
- Active
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