Olympia, Washington, is a coastal city at the southernmost reach of
Puget Sound. The area around and including present-day Olympia is home to several Coastal Salish
groups, which include the Duwamish, Nisqually, and Squaxin.
Olympia had a variety of names, such as “Stu-chus-and”, “Stitchas”, and even “New
Market”, though Colonel Issac Ebey is credited with suggesting the name Olympia, no
doubt in reference to the mountain of the same name that looms high on the
Olympic Peninsula.