"Midland" first shows up in writing on the Midland Townsite Plat of 1890, by the Olympic Land Company.The Plat’s northern border is 104th St. E. from the 14 hundred block on the west to a half block east of 26th Ave. E. This street was named "Achilles" (104th St. E.), and was also the southern border of the Southeast Tacoma Plat from the year before.