Olympia’s Industrial Ambitions
Local leaders invest in tide lands to lure manufacturing to the city.
Representative men of Olympia have raised money for the purchase of a quantity of tide lands. These lands will be offered as inducements for the establishment of various manufactories. This makes a bonus, inexpensive to the citizens, yet of great value to the locator of a factory. Sidney might profit by the foresight of the Olympians.
“These lands will be offered as inducements for the establishment of various manufactories.”
Then · 1892134 years apartNow · 2026
The 'boosterism' of the 1890s, where cities competed to offer land and incentives to industry, mirrors the modern-day competition between municipalities to attract tech hubs and corporate headquarters through tax breaks and land deals.
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