Puyallup, WA news and local guide

In 1877 Ezra Meeker, who had left Indiana 11 years earlier, platted a townsite and named it Puyallup after the local Puyallup tribes. The town grew quickly through the 1880s, largely because of Meeker's hop farm, which brought millions of dollars into Puyallup, and it was incorporated in 1890 with Meeker as its first mayor. The early 20th century brought change with the growth of nearby Tacoma and interurban rail lines, and the Western Washington Fairgrounds were developed as a place for farmers to show their crops and livestock. Early in World War II, under Executive Order 9066, the fairgrounds became Camp Harmony, a temporary detention camp for more than 7,000 Japanese Americans, most of them U.S. citizens, who were later sent to the Minidoka camp near Twin Falls, Idaho. Puyallup lies on the Puyallup River, which runs 45 miles from glaciers on Mount Rainier to Commencement Bay in Tacoma, about 10 miles southeast of Tacoma. Sources Wikipedia: Puyallup, Washington