Keyword(s): Steve Olson
Intensive logging started later in Southwest Washington than it did around Puget Sound, largely because sandbars at the mouths of the Columbia River, Willapa Bay, and Grays Harbor impeded th...
Originally a scattered collection of farmhouses on an arid lip of the Columbia Plateau, the town of Othello boomed after the 1909 arrival of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, whic...
After the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad Company went bankrupt in 1977, Washington State bought much of what was known as the Milwaukee Road and began converting it into a cross-state recre...
On May 23, 1910, three years after being designated as one end of the Coast Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, the town of Othello incorporates. Despite the railroad&rs...