1959 Map of Weir Prairie

About this map

The Fort Lewis Military Reservation dominates this landscape in the late 1950s, showing a transition from the wooded training grounds of the north to the more open Weir Prairie in the south. The area is defined by its water and industrial infrastructure, notably the Centralia Canal which feeds a Powerplant via a series of Penstocks near the Nisqually River. To the west, the Deschutes River snakes through the corner of the map near a local Grange Hall and the Collins Sch.