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==History== South Hill Historical Society gathers data and memories on the history of South Hill. '''Major events''' * 1853- Longmire-Biles wagon train crosses South Hill * 1870- South Hill inhabited * 1895- Firgrove School District is established * 1905- Main route through South Hill named Ball-Wood Road * 1909- Tacoma-Puyallup Interurban Line rail operates through South Hill * 1930- SagMiller Airstrip opens * 1944- Thun Field opens ([[Pierce County Airport]] today), although John Thun doesn't buy it until 1949 * 1945- Japan uses [[Fire balloon|balloon bomb system]] to bomb mainland USA in World War II, and two of the bombs landed in South Hill <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.southhillhistory.com/History/Balloon%20bomb/Baloon_bomb.html |title=South Hill Historical Society |publisher=Southhillhistory.com |access-date=2017-01-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629080631/http://southhillhistory.com/History/Balloon%20bomb/Baloon_bomb.html |archive-date=2017-06-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 1950- Firgrove School District consolidates with Puyallup School District * 1972- State Route 512 is completed * 1986- [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|EPA]] places Pierce County Landfill in South Hill on the National Priorities List <ref>{{cite web |url=http://yosemite.epa.gov/r10/nplpad.nsf/88d393e4946e3c478825631200672c95/e59bb65c188a169c85256592007cc0dd?OpenDocument |title=Hidden Valley Landfill |access-date=2010-05-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609190640/http://yosemite.epa.gov/r10/nplpad.nsf/88d393e4946e3c478825631200672c95/e59bb65c188a169c85256592007cc0dd?OpenDocument |archive-date=2012-06-09 }}</ref> * 1998- Proposal for South Hill's incorporation into Southview is defeated by voters <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.southhillhistory.com/History/Attempt_at_cityhood.html |title=South Hill Historical Society |publisher=Southhillhistory.com |access-date=2017-01-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110002726/http://southhillhistory.com/History/Attempt_at_cityhood.html |archive-date=2018-01-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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