Whitman, Washington

Whitman is an unincorporated community in Walla Walla County, in the U.S. state of Washington.[1]

Not to be confused with Whitman County, Washington.

History

A post office called Whitman was established in 1870, and remained in operation until 1875.[2] The community was named after Marcus Whitman, a missionary who was killed by Indians.[3]

gollark: Software support? Probably. It doesn't help that each OS vendor is trying to lock you into their walled garden now.
gollark: Arch is rolling release, and I think any breaking of the package manager would also likely mess up everything else *anyway*.
gollark: The AUR (btw I use arch) contains a *lot* of stuff, and if it doesn't I can sometimes wrangle a program into compiling from source from their github or whatever.
gollark: It's *automated* building from source, it's not that bad.
gollark: You can just `pacman -S whatever`, assuming it's available, or if it isn't I have the AUR.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Whitman, Washington
  2. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  3. Meany, Edmond S. (1923). Origin of Washington geographic names. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 347.



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