About Pacific, Washington

Pacific is a city of 7,235 people on the line between King and Pierce counties, about 28 miles south of Seattle. Hop farms brought good times to the White River Valley in the 1880s and 1890s, but in 1891 an outbreak of aphids wiped out the crop within a year, and local farmers switched to potatoes, vegetables and fruit. On September 25, 1902, the Puget Sound Electric Railway opened its line between Seattle and Tacoma through the valley.

Real estate developer Clarence Dayton Hillman and his wife, Bessie Olive Hillman, quietly bought more than 3,000 acres near the line from some 20 sellers, and in 1906 he platted the town he called Pacific City. It incorporated on August 10, 1909, with James F. Lemar as its first mayor, and by 1910 it had 413 residents. The Interurban carried passengers for 26 years, until its last train ran on December 30, 1928.

  • Mail from a moving trainAlfred R. Weaver, a saloon owner, bought Mr. Lantz's grocery and feed store by the tracks and turned it into a grocery and post office. President Theodore Roosevelt named him postmaster on April 17, 1908. As trains of the Milwaukee, Chicago, and St. Paul line rolled slowly past the store, railroad workers tossed the mail bags off while Weaver threw Pacific's outgoing bags aboard.
  • Gius' Market since 1934Richard Gius took over the post office in 1933 and the next spring opened a market in a building leased from the Junkins family. When the owners wouldn't renew the lease, he bought the corner lot opposite, and his father, Amadio Gius, put up a new store there in less than a month. In 1936 Richard and Angie, his wife, moved the business and the post office into it. Four generations of Giuses have served the town since.
  • School above a land officePacific's first teacher, a Mr. Bagley, held classes upstairs in Hillman's real estate building. By 1907 children crossed the tracks to a school run by John and Etta Whistler, and after the Methodist Church went up in 1908, classes met there. The three-story Pacific School opened in 1916 on the ground where City Hall was later built.
  • The flood of 1906On November 14, 1906, heavy rain and melting snow drove the White River into the small Stuck River and on toward the Puyallup near Tacoma. The flood struck Pacific along with Kent, Auburn, Sumner and Puyallup, and it permanently changed the course of the valley's rivers. To control the floods, Mud Mountain Dam was finished on the White River in 1950.
  • Water released in 2009On January 8, 2009, with its reservoir full after heavy rain, the Army Corps of Engineers let water out of Mud Mountain Dam so fast that it flooded Pacific almost without warning. Jerry Miller, one of Moby Grape's founding members, had only recently moved to Pacific from Tacoma, and the water took nearly all he owned, including more than forty years of keepsakes from his music career. FEMA helped the families hit by the flood.

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Names on the Pacific map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks2

  • Pacific City Park
  • Benroy

Streets and roads99

  • Milwaukee Boulevard South
  • Milwaukee Boulevard North
  • County Line Road Southeast
  • Homer Avenue
  • Birch Lane
  • Steward Road Southwest
  • Eighth Street East
  • White River Drive
  • Pacific Avenue South
  • Third Avenue Southeast
  • Skinner Road North
  • Skinner Road
  • Valentine Avenue Southeast
  • Valentine Avenue
  • Eastgate Avenue
  • Second Avenue Southwest
  • Frontage Road North
  • 51st Avenue South
  • Fourth Avenue Southeast
  • South 372nd Street
  • Beaver Boulevard
  • West Valley Highway South
  • Ellingson Road
  • Third Avenue Southwest
  • Butte Avenue
  • First Avenue East
  • Thornton Avenue Southwest
  • Butte Avenue East
  • West Valley Highway East
  • Chicago Boulevard South
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  • Fifth Avenue Southwest
  • Fourth Avenue Southwest
  • Roy Road Southwest
  • Tacoma Boulevard South
  • Sixth Avenue Southwest
  • Fifth Avenue South
  • 55th Avenue South
  • County Line Road Southwest
  • Third Avenue Northwest
  • Hawthorne Avenue
  • Yakima Avenue South
  • Frontage Road South
  • Pacific Avenue North
  • Nyberg Road Southwest
  • Wayne Avenue
  • Pacific Avenue
  • South 380th Street
  • Seattle Boulevard South
  • Cedar Lane
  • Saint Paul Boulevard
  • Elise Lane
  • Alder Lane South
  • Alder Lane North
  • Kc Parks Dept Road
  • Bent Tree Lane
  • South 375th Place
  • Coyote Drive
  • Valley Street
  • Butte Place
  • Steward Road Southeast
  • Algona Boulevard
  • Third Avenue Northeast
  • Second Avenue Northeast
  • Eastgate Avenue North
  • County Line Road
  • Second Avenue Southeast
  • Fifth Avenue Southeast
  • 16th Street East
  • Oakhurst Drive
  • Rhubarb Avenue Southwest
  • South 382nd Street
  • Fifth Avenue Northeast
  • Aspen Lane South
  • Sunset Drive
  • Otter Drive Southwest
  • Aspen Lane North
  • Third Place Southeast
  • Second Court Southwest
  • Chicago Boulevard
  • Tenth Saint Court East
  • Valley View Drive
  • 56th Avenue South
  • Huckleberry Street
  • Valentine Court
  • Green Lake Place
  • Arthur Court
  • Elise Court
  • Glacier Avenue South
  • Fourth Avenue Northeast
  • 53rd Avenue South
  • Milwaukee Avenue
  • Tacoma Boulevard
  • Dereks Place
  • Ellingson Drive
  • Frontage Road
  • Chinook Avenue South
  • Spokane Avenue South
  • Yakima Boulevard
  • Pacific Place

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