 Picture Courtesy of Washington State Department of Transportation
The Evergreen State
The Spanish Captain Juan Perez sailed north from San Blas in 1774, with orders from Spain to claim the Coast, against the Russians. Perez discovered Nootka Sound on the West shore of Vancouver Island and traded with the natives of the Queen Charlottes. He sighted a snow peak, towering high and afar from a rock-bound coast, on August 11,1774. He named it Sierra Nevada de Santa Rosalia. Four years later British Captain John Meares ws the second explorer to observe the mighty peak. He named it Mt. Olympus ... and put it on the map forever.
Erected by the Washington State Highway Commission
SR 101, about 7 miles east of Port Angeles. Challam County Washington
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