The monument to Lieutenant William Slaughter on Auburn Way in Auburn, Washington

By Jack Brummet, Green River Valley History Ed.

A couple of slowly crumbling granite monuments on Auburn Way North in Auburn, Wash.,  memorialize victims of the Treaty War.  Lieutenant William Slaughter and other soldiers, died in 1855 in an attack by native Americans.  When I was a kid, this memorial was known as the Massacre.

I was always fascinated and asked to stop whenever we passed by these memorials in our car.  There were the first "historical markers" I'd ever seen.  They are still there, but I haven't stopped by in at least 45 years. . .

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