Phone photo 2163

Isaac Stevens, Washington's first territorial governor, is pictured stealing land from the Natives of Grays Harbor in the 1850s at a site that is now the city of Cosmopolis. Yes, we actually have a city called Cosmopolis here. Locals call it "Causy." This scene is in the Grays Harbor County Courthouse, Montesano, Washington, which the locals call "Monte." Monte is a most pleasant city.

Stevens has a controversial place in Washington history generated in part by his shabby treatment of the Indian population. After he left our corner of the world, he was killed in action at the first Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War while serving in the Union Army.

Phone photo 979

Near the site of the original Executive Mansion, home of Gov. Isaac Stevens in the 1850s
in the background is the old Thurston County Courthouse,
I filled out my first voters registration card there back in the Stone Age

Phone photo 255

In Cosmopolis, Washington, there is a fading mural on some kind of water treatment plant that sits behind a nasty barbed-wire fence. This picture depicts the first territorial governor, Isaac Stevens, in an historic pose while in the act of stealing the land from the Native Americans.