About The Society
The South Hill Historical Society is no longer active. However, this website will continue to be maintained and updated. The site will serve as a valuable and easily accessed source of South Hill history. Included here are published articles, newsletters and information generated by the Society during its 20 plus years of activity. Feel free to contact this website with questions, comments or additional history to grow this archive.
In 2001 the South Hill Historical Society was organized to trace the history of South Hill. Simply put, our mission was to gather up and preserve South Hill history from the late 1800’s to the present. We collected and published the results of our research with the goal of maintaining a link to South Hill’s past for future generations and those of us today curious about that history.
Years of research, endless hours with microfilm/microfiche machines, copying old newspaper articles and maps, interviewing old timers, reaching out to other historical groups and museums went into the Society's research. The result is a history of South Hill that spans the periods before white settlement up to current times.
Geographic area of study
“South Hill” for our historical purposes is defined as the area south of the Puyallup Fairgrounds (15th Ave. SW) south to 200th Street. On the east the boundary is "the ridge” overlooking the Orting Valley, and on the west the boundary is Canyon Road.
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