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I-5 plows through Tumwater, Washington
It basically flattened the original central business district back in the 1950s

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I-5 looking south
Tumwater, Washington
The very southern tip of the Everett-Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia megaopolis

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EAT
Vader, Washington

It was just a bit north over the county line in Lewis County not far from this ancient giant EAT sign (just as easily seen on Interstate 5 today as it was when it was displayed on the Oregon Trail during the time this little cafe served the pioneers), that my ancestors first settled in Washington Territory in the mid-1870s.

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Crosby House, Tumwater, Washington

This 150 year old home was originally built by Bing Crosby's grandfather and is one of the few survivors of the destruction of historic downtown Tumwater when Interstate 5 plowed the middle of town in the 1950s. Tumwater was the site of the earliest American settlement on Puget Sound in the mid-1840s.