Supporters of the 700-pound, seven-foot-tall, $122,000 bronze Goddess of Commerce statue will publicly unveil the object on Weds., Aug. 31…
Tacoma’s itinerant Goddess of Commerce appears to have finally found a permanent home. Supporters of the 700-pound, seven-foot-tall, $122,000 bronze…
The life of Harry P. Cain, a former Tacoma mayor who achieved national prominence, will be recounted when Tacoma Historical…
The City of Tacoma’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has rejected a request to place a 700-pound, seven-foot-tall, $122,000 bronze statue…
Tacoma Historical Society volunteers and Fort Nisqually re-enactors will host a living history tour of the Old Tacoma Cemetery Fri.,…
Tacoma Historical Society announced today it has formed a partnership with GeoEngineers, Inc. to develop an exhibit on the history…
Tacoma Historical Society announced the opening of “A Stitch in Time,” a new exhibit showing the work of a few…
The Tacoma Historical Society announced recently its annual dinner and auction will be held Sun., Oct. 12 at the Tacoma…
!["The nice thing about a [passenger] train is you can see what the country looks like -- you can look right out into people's backyards," says historian, author, and retired railroad employee Jim Fredrickson, who has amassed a collection of passenger train memorabilia. (PHOTO BY TODD MATTHEWS)](https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/070208_passenger_train1_web.jpg)
In the early-1940s, as a teenager at Stadium High School, Jim Fredrickson was a common fixture near Union Station in…
The Tacoma Historical Society announced yesterday it is opening a new exhibit entitled “Passenger Trains of Puget Sound, 1900 to…
