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From Your Corner of Washington: Dayton

From Your Corner of Washington: Dayton

Located in Southeastern Washington, near the foothills of the Blue Mountains to the south, Dayton is a small town (2,735 population) that is full of history. Besides being located along the Lewis and Clark Trail, it’s also home to the historic Columbia County Courthouse (pictured below) and the Dayton Historic Depot. Now a museum, the depot was built in 1881, and is the oldest surviving passenger train station in the state.    Dayton was named for Jesse N. Day, a former West Virginian…

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From Your Corner: Coupeville’s name

From Your Corner: Coupeville’s name

Located along picturesque Penn Cove on the northern half of Whidbey Island, Coupeville is a small, charming town of about 1,900 people that draws many tourists and visitors who step foot on Washington’s largest island and one of the largest islands in the lower 48 states. Coupeville is a great place to watch the annual Whidbey Island Race Week sailing competition (pictured below) in July. So how did the Island County seat acquire its name? Penn Cove was settled by…

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From Your Corner of Washington: Colville’s name

From Your Corner of Washington: Colville’s name

Pronounced KAWL-vil and located in northeastern Washington, the Stevens County seat was established by the Hudson’s Bay Co. as Fort Colville in 1825 and named for Andrew Colvile (with only one “l”), London governor of the fur-trading company. A few miles east, the U.S. Army established a post under Maj. Pinkney Lougenbeel, and in his honor the place was known as Pinkney City. When Stevens County was organized in 1863, Pinkney was renamed Colville and designated as the county seat….

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From Your Corner of Washington

From Your Corner of Washington

– Mount Rainier National Park. The snow just above Paradise in Mount Rainier National Park has melted, and the famous and beautiful wildflowers there are in full bloom. Submit us your photo from your corner of Washington, and add our Facebook application.

From Your Corner of Washington

From Your Corner of Washington

Mount Rainier’s summit, Muir Snowfield – Submitted by Janet. Each year, thousands of mountain climbers and day-hikers travel up the snowfield to Camp Muir, which sits on the mountain’s south side at nearly 10,200 feet above sea level. This isn’t an activity for the unprepared. The hike from Paradise is about nine miles round trip, with an elevation gain of about 4,700 feet. Submit us your photo from your corner of Washington, and add our Facebook application.

From your corner of Washington: Reed Island

From your corner of Washington: Reed Island

Nope, it’s not a coincidence that Secretary Reed shares his name with Reed Island, that tiny piece of land located in Lower Columbia River – it’s where his family settled  more than 120 years ago! The 508-acre island was founded in 1885 by Secretary Reed’s great grandparents, William and Myrta Reed. Ownership of Reed Island stayed in the family until 1954 when the land was given to Washington State. In 2003, Secretary Reed started discovering stories about his family’s ties to the…

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From Your Corner of Washington: Bellingham

From Your Corner of Washington: Bellingham

The Whatcom County seat and home of Western Washington University is located on Bellingham Bay between Mount Baker and the San Juans. Our featured town also had lots of names before it was finally called Bellingham. What is now Bellingham Bay was called Gulf of Gaston in 1791. A year later, Joseph Whidbey, a member of George Vancouver’s expedition, surveyed the bay. It was soon given the English name of Bellingham after Sir William Bellingham, controller of the British Navy’s storekeeper…

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