The Tumwater Falls are a series of cascades on the Deschutes River in Tumwater , Washington , United States. They are located near where the river empties into Budd Inlet , a southerly arm of Puget Sound in Olympia .
7-638: The 1906 Olympia Brewery brewhouse, known locally as "the Old Brewery", is located at the base of the Tumwater Falls in Tumwater, Washington . Once the manufacturing site for Olympia Beer , the classic Mission Revival structure, designed by prominent local architect Joseph Wohleb , replaced the initial wooden plant constructed in 1896. Dedicated in 1906, closed since the advent of Prohibition , this imposing redbrick structure has long served as
14-704: A fish ladder was built by the Washington Department of Fisheries (now the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife ), to provide salmon access to the newly constructed fish hatchery located immediately above the falls. Prior to the 1952 hatchery operations, the Deschutes river above the Tumwater Falls lacked a natural salmon run. In 1962, Olympia Brewing Company donated 15 acres (6.1 ha) of land surrounding
21-606: A course through glacial debris left after the Pleistocene ice age until it reached volcanic bedrock, forming the falls as it coursed down to Puget Sound. Tumwater Falls was the site of New Market , the first European settlement in Western Washington . It was also the site of the now-defunct Olympia Brewing Company . A footbridge across the falls was constructed in the 1860s, and the current bridge dates to around 1890. Olympia Light and Power Company constructed
28-535: A dam and a hydroelectric power plant at the falls in 1890, a decade before the Snoqualmie Falls powerplant outside Seattle . The plant powered an Olympia–Tumwater streetcar, among other things. A dam at 82 feet (25 m) above sea level created a head for the powerhouse and still stands on the Deschutes River. The Tumwater Falls created an impassable barrier to salmon until 1952, when
35-513: A landmark for local residents and drivers along Interstate 5 . A new brewery was built in 1934, uphill from the original brewhouse. Brewing operations in a modern plant on the site ended in 2003. The brewery has been for sale since the collapse of a real estate deal with a bottled water company in 2007. After condemning previous owners' water rights in April 2008, the cities of Lacey, Olympia and Tumwater took possession of water rights once held by
42-551: The crews extinguished the fire. There was no word on the cause of the fire though it is believed to be caused by people cutting copper wires out. The building still had some electrical currents which sparked a flame. This article about a property in Washington on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tumwater Falls The Deschutes River carved
49-776: The former Olympia Brewing Company . The original brewhouse is part of the Tumwater Historic District , listed on the National Register of Historic Places . On the early morning of October 8, 2018, the Tumwater Fire Department responded to the Olympia Brewery Complex for a reported structure fire. The fire had fully engulfed the building that formerly housed the Brewery offices. Part of the building collapsed as
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