Music in South Hill

Songs About South Hill

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Allison Russell

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"Outside the South Hill Candy Store"

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Rivers & Roads in Song near South Hill

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near South Hill.

Interstate 5 15 songs Interstate 405 7 songs U.S. Route 101 10 songs

History of South Hill

Carbonado: Sounds Like Diamond, Built on Coal RoadyGoat

1880

Carbonado, in the foothills below Mount Rainier, has a name that gem hunters know well. Carbonado is the term for a tough black diamond, so the town sounds like it sits on a fortune. It doesn't. The name traces straight back to carbon and coal. Founded in 1880 by the Carbon Hill Coal Company, on the Carbon River, the town was first called Carbondale after a Pennsylvania mining town. To avoid confusion with other Carbondales, it was reshaped into the distinctive Carbonado in the 1880s. For the next half century it was Pierce County's biggest coal producer, pulling roughly ten million tons of good-grade coal out of the ground. So the name only flirts with diamonds. Everything about this place, the river, the company, the work, points to coal.

11.4 mi away

City of Glass and Castles RoadyGoat

Tacoma turned a rough reputation into a glittering one. The port town was long ribbed for the 'Aroma of Tacoma' — the sulfur funk off its old pulp-and-paper mills — but downtown it now glows with the work of native son Dale Chihuly, born here in 1941 and arguably the most famous glass artist alive. His five-hundred-foot Bridge of Glass, opened in 2002, spans the freeway in crystal towers and a ceiling of blown-glass seaforms, leading to the Museum of Glass. A few blocks up sits Stadium High School, a turreted chateau begun in 1891 as a luxury railroad hotel, abandoned after a financial panic and a fire, then reborn as a school — and later cast as the castle-like campus in the 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You. Mountain, sound, glass, and a fairy-tale high school: Tacoma cleaned up nice.

11.8 mi away

Galloping Gertie: The Bridge That Danced to Death

1940

The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed spectacularly on November 7, 1940, just four months after opening, becoming the most famous engineering failure in history.

16.2 mi away

Everything Near South Hill

4 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

Carbonado: Sounds Like Diamond, Built on Coal · 11.4 mi
Carbonado, in the foothills below Mount Rainier, has a name that gem hunters know well. Carbonado is the term for a tough black diamond, so the town sounds like it sits on a fortune. It doesn't. The name traces straight…
City of Glass and Castles · 11.8 mi
Tacoma turned a rough reputation into a glittering one. The port town was long ribbed for the 'Aroma of Tacoma' — the sulfur funk off its old pulp-and-paper mills — but downtown it now glows with the work of native son…
Tacoma, WA · 11.8 mi · Local history
Tacoma owes its existence to both a mountain and a railroad. Long before the name "Tacoma" stuck, the Puyallup Tribe thrived along the shores of Puget Sound and the banks of the Puyallup River, where salmon runs were…
Galloping Gertie: The Bridge That Danced to Death · 16.2 mi · Historical Marker
The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed spectacularly on November 7, 1940, just four months after opening, becoming the most famous engineering failure in history.

South Hill, Washington