Isaac Stevens - Memorialization

Memorialization

  • A small monument in Ox Hill Battlefield Park commemorates the death of Stevens.
  • Stevens County, Washington, and Stevens County, Minnesota, were both named in his honor.
  • Two U.S. Army forts were named for Stevens—Fort Stevens in the Union defenses of Washington and Fort Stevens in Oregon, which was active from 1863 until 1947 to protect the mouth of the Columbia River.
  • The Isaac Stevens Camp #1, Washington State Camp of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, is named in honor of the fallen general.
  • Stevens Hall on the campus of Washington State University was named for Governor Stevens.
  • The city of Lake Stevens, Washington, and Lake Stevens is named for him.
  • The town of Stevensville, Montana, is named for him.
  • Isaac Stevens Middle School in Pasco, Washington, and Isaac I. Stevens Elementary School in Seattle, Washington, are after him.
  • Stevens Peak and Upper and Lower Stevens Lake in Northern Idaho (just south of Mullan, Idaho) were named after him by Capt. John Mullan.

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