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Pe Ell -- Thumbnail History

The small town of Pe Ell is located in the Chehalis River Valley of western Lewis County not far from the border with Pacific County. Non-Native settlement in the area that became Pe Ell began in the ...

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Peaceful Valley (Spokane)

Peaceful Valley is a Spokane neighborhood known as a working-class, bohemian enclave located just west of downtown on the south bank of the Spokane River. It is separated from the rest of Spokane by s...

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Point Roberts -- Thumbnail History

Point Roberts (Whatcom County) is a 4.9-square-mile unincorporated American exclave located in the southern part of Canada's Tsawwassen Peninsula. Although Point Roberts is part of the United States,...

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Pomeroy -- Thumbnail History

Pomeroy is the seat of Garfield County, the least populated of Washington's 39 counties. Located in the Pataha Valley in the southeastern portion of the state, an agricultural region primarily devoted...

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Port Angeles -- Thumbnail History

Port Angeles, the county seat of Clallam County since 1890, is built on the site of two major Klallam villages, I'e'nis and Tse-whit-zen, on the north shore of the Olympic Peninsula. It sits on a natu...

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Port Gamble -- Thumbnail History

Port Gamble represents one of the few remaining examples of company towns, thousands of which were built in the nineteenth century by industrialists to house employees. Founders Josiah Keller, William...

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Port Orchard -- Thumbnail History

Port Orchard, located in south Kitsap County, was platted as Sidney in 1886 by Frederick Stevens, who wanted to name the future town after his father, Sidney Merrill Stevens. He chose a site on the so...

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Port Townsend -- Thumbnail History

Few places in Washington can match Port Townsend's long saga of soaring dreams, bitter disappointments, near death, and gradual rebirth. Located on Jefferson County's Quimper Peninsula at the northeas...

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Poulsbo -- Thumbnail History

Poulsbo, the little fishing town on Liberty Bay in North Kitsap County, due west of Seattle, got its nickname "Little Norway" from the many Norwegian Americans who settled there starting in the 1880s....

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Prosser -- Thumbnail History

Prosser, the county seat of Benton County, is a town of about 5,000 people located in the far western part of the Eastern Washington county. The economy is based on agriculture including orchards, whe...

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Puyallup -- Thumbnail History

Puyallup (Pew-al'-up), a suburban city of 36,790 (2007) about five miles southeast of Tacoma, was once the hub of an agricultural cornucopia. The Puyallup Valley is the ancestral home of the Puyallup ...

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Quincy -- Thumbnail History

Quincy is a city in Grant County near the heart of Central Washington in a region sometimes known as the Big Bend Country. It is about 10 miles north of I-90, seven miles east of the Columbia River, a...

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Raymond -- Thumbnail History

The blanket of old growth forest that covered the Willapa Hills surrounding Raymond, on the Willapa River in Pacific County, fueled the town's growth from a handful of farms to a mill town bustling wi...

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Redmond -- Thumbnail History

Redmond, home to the Microsoft Corportation, is known worldwide as a center for high technology. The town's fame has come about only in recent times. For more than a century, Redmond was seen as just ...

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Renton -- Thumbnail History

The city of Renton, located 15 miles southeast of Seattle along the southern shores of Lake Washington, has been a manufacturing center for the Pacific Northwest for more than a century.

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Republic -- Thumbnail History

Republic, the county seat of sparsely populated Ferry County in Northeast Washington, sprang into existence as a gold-mining camp in 1896 called Eureka or Eureka Gulch. By 1898 it was crowded with 2,0...

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Richland -- Thumbnail History

The city of Richland, one of the Tri-Cities along with Pasco and Kennewick, is on a site near the confluence of the Yakima River and the Columbia River that has been occupied for at least 11,000 years...

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Ridgefield -- Thumbnail History

Originally the site of a Chinook Indian village, the small city of Ridgefield in Clark County grew up on the banks of Lake River, a slow slough of navigable water that starts in Vancouver Lake and fl...

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Ritzville -- Thumbnail History

Ritzville is the county seat of Adams County in Eastern Washington and the center of a vast wheat-growing region. It sprang into existence in 1881 when the Northern Pacific railroad established it as ...

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Roslyn -- Thumbnail History

Roslyn, a town in Kittitas County on the east slope of the Cascades, was founded as a coal-mining town in 1886 when prospectors from the Northern Pacific Railway found rich veins of coal. Within weeks...

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Sammamish -- Thumbnail History

Sammamish (King County) is located on a broad plateau about 14 air miles east of Seattle. Until the 1870s, the area was largely uninhabited by humans. In 1877 Martin Monohon became the first permanent...

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Sammamish Neighborhoods: Inglewood -- Thumbnail History

Inglewood, a community on the eastern shore of Lake Sammamish in eastern King County, is often confused -- though it should not be -- with a town platted in the 1880s by Ingebright Wold south of Lake ...

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Sammamish Neighborhoods: Weber Point -- Thumbnail History

Weber Point, located in King County on the eastern shore of Lake Sammamish in the northern part of the city of Sammamish, is today (2006) an upscale residential development. But early in the twentiet...

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SeaTac -- Thumbnail History

The City of SeaTac was incorporated in 1989 and named after the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, which it surrounds. Native Americans had occupied the region roughly midway between present-day Se...

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