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GREENWOOD-028 Front
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- c. 1906 (Creation)
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- The abandoned cabin of Ezra Meeker, the city of Puyallup's founder and first mayor. Meeker and his wife Eliza Jane built this cabin in 1862, 15 years before he platted the town, and they lived in it for 26 years. Eliza Jane planted the ivy vine in 1864. Upon her urging and with a fortune amassed through the hop industry, Ezra Meeker built and moved his family into the Meeker Mansion in 1890. He gifted his former homestead to the city of Puyallup. In recognition, a pergola was built in what is now Pioneer Park to support the ivy vine still marking the cabin site.
- Printed on front: Ezra Meeker's Pioneer home