Sundial: bronze or hand-hammered brass and sandstone. Base: terrazzo
Type:
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures-Sundial
Sculptures-Relief
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Administered by Washington State Arts Commission Art in Public Places Program 100 9th & Columbia Bldg., Mail Stop GH-11 Olympia Washington 98504
Located Washington State Capitol West Campus, in front of State Library Olympia Washington
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Washington survey, 1994.
Summary:
A sundial with bas-reliefs of events of territorial pioneer history on its facade. These events include: Captain George Vancouver's discoveries in 1792; the establishment of Fort Okanogan near the mouth of the Okanogan River in 1811 and the erection of Fort Vancouver by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1825; the Cowlits Convention urging creation of a new territory in 1851; crossing Nachez Pass in 1853; the first water-powered saw-mill in Washington built by Michael T. Simmons in 1828; the first railroad to Puget Sound in 1883; and the Medicine Creek Treaty between the United States and Puget Sound Indians drawn up by Governor Stevens in 1854.
Topic:
History--United States--Westward Expansion Search this
