Sure, everybody knows nowadays to “Say WA,” but the convoluted history of abbreviations for the Evergreen State demands a full accounting. Or at least an abbreviated one.
The name of our state — Washington — has a lot of letters (10, if I’m counting correctly). So it’s not surprising that people have been abbreviating “Washington” for a long time on documents, envelopes, and signs.
Other than in old newspapers, one of the coolest examples of an early abbreviation for what’s now Washington is visible along the foundation and near the cornerstone of a building in Port Townsend constructed on Water Street in the mid 1880s.
On a cast iron
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