"On Friday afternoon, October 30, 1925, under the auspices of the Washington State Historical Society a monument was unveiled at the north end of the Meridian Street Bridge, Puyallup… A statement of the reasons for erecting the monument was made by W.P. Bonney, Secretary of the Washington State Historical Society as follows: ...'The inscriptions on these tablets are not news today. They hark back to the news items of seventy years ago; back to the days when John Carson, with his family, came and established his home on this spot.'"
