Chloe Clark Memorial Committee
Chloe Clark was the first school teacher to come to DuPont and the entire Puget Sound region. Originally from Connecticut, this well-educated, single woman sailed from New England to the Hudson Bay Company's Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River and then overland to its trading post at Ft. Nisqually (on the site of present-day DuPont). Chloe was 22 years old when she arrived on July 10, 1840. This mission school was built a short distance from Ft. Nisqually. It was Chloe's mission to provide education to the Native American Children.
This past October a group of volunteers from Steilacoom Historical School District No. 1 formed the Chloe Clark Memorial Committee to raise funds to erect a picturesque memorial to this woman. The statue will be placed on the school grounds at the corner of Palisade Boulevard and Haskell Street, in Dupont, Washington. This will give the public full, unrestricted view of the site.
The memorial consists of a slightly larger-than-life, bronze statue showing Chloe in period clothing, holding a school bell and a book. The statue will be placed beneath a stylized version of that early mission school. Commemorative plaques, telling Chloe's story and recognizing donors will be placed at the site.
The Chloe Clark Memorial Committee is an ad hoc committee
of the Steilacoom Historical Education Foundation (SHEF).
SHEF is dedicated
to encourage and enable excellence in education in the schools of the Steilacoom
Historical School District Number 1. Incorporated as
a nonprofit corporation in the State of Washington (UBI 601 408 221),
SHEF
has an IRS determination of exempt from FIT under section 501(c)(3) of
the Internal Revenue Code. EIN is 91-1625841.
Click Here to download the Chloe Clark Statue brochure.
