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HELP!!!!! Why did they pick olympia to be Washington"s capital?

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Olympia built port facilities and a lumber-based economy, which was supplemented by oyster farming, dairying, brewing, and other businesses. Built as Smithfield in 1851, it later became the location of a United States customs house and was renamed after the adjacent Olympic Mountains.

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