Geographically correct railroad and road map of the Pacific Northwest the tinted area showing inland empire and Spokane compiled by Emory Cobb, (ca. 1925)
Northwest, Pacific -- Maps Washington (State)--Maps Northwest, Pacific -- Road Maps Railroads -- Northwest, Pacific -- Maps Columbia Basin Survey Commission Butler, John S. Corps of Engineers--308 Report Woods, Rufus Quincy Valley Water Users Association Washington Water Company Albeni Falls, Idaho Priest Lake, Idaho
1 Map : 26 x 40 cm. "The Main Highways are Shown by the Heavy Black Lines." "Dark green shaded area show Columbia River Basin Project which will reclaim 1,750,000 acres." See front cover and back of map: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu151 Before the arrival to Washington State of the first irrigation projects handled by the U.S. Reclamation Service, the Northern Pacific Railroad and other railway companies funded private irrigation projects in the Columbia River Basin. Their efforts stemmed from a desire to see the entire state in top production and farming communities everywhere in need of railroad shipping services. This map shows the Inland Empire and more importantly, the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project at one of its most crucial times of development. The Inland Empire consisted of eastern Washington, northern Idaho, and northeast Oregon from between the Cascade Mountains to the Rocky Mountains. Within it lay "Big Bend" country--the region farmers flocked to when Palouse land was no longer available. (On this map it is shaded a dark green) For this reason, Big Bend was also known as the "Empire within an Empire". It held some 2,800,000 acres, of which half were irrigable, lying ninety miles from north to south and sixty miles east to west. The project was much too large for one railroad company or town, or other private investor to take handle. By 1919, a number of government agencies (both state and federal) reviewed irrigation plans for the area. Among the top three were the "Gravity Plan", pushed by the city of Spokane and the Washington Water Power Company, the "Pumping Plan" proposed by Billy Clapp of Ephrata and supported by the surveys of Mr. James O'Sullivan, and the "Wenatchee Lake Plan", originating with Wenatchee Valley booster, Mr. Rufus Woods and taken on by the Quincy Valley Water Users Association. The Wenatchee Lake Plan proposed a gravity canal built from Wenatchee Lake in the mountains down to the floor of the Quincy Valley and would only water 400,000 acres. The Pumping Plan involved the erection of a dam at Grand Coulee, giving water to an estimated 1,400,000 acres in the Big Bend country to its south. This map supported the Gravity Plan, which would build a low masonry dam on Pend Oreille River at Albeni Falls, Idaho and hold the waters at Pend Oreille Lake and Priest Lake, Idaho. The reservoir lay approximately forty miles from Spokane. The water would then be sent (by gravity) through a series of canals and tunnels, siphons and aqueducts--even lakes--until it reached the Big Bend country 130 miles below. This plan predicted water for the most amount of acres (1, 750,000) and was touted as economically feasible. Throughout the 1920s, a number of survey reports weighing the feasibility of both plans were given, and approved the gravity plan over the pumping plan. However, the Corps of Engineers' "308 Report" compiled by Major John S. Butler, was the first to approve of the Grand Coulee (pumping plan) venture. When used as evidence in the House of Representative's hearing by the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, the tide had changed and the pumping plan was approved over the gravity plan. With this approval, in 1933 President Roosevelt signed for appropriation of funds made possible by the National Industrial Recovery Act and construction on the Grand Coulee Dam began soon after.
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Map of eastern Washington and northern Idaho showing location of Colville Reservation, (ca. 1871).
Colville Indian Reservation--Maps, Manuscript Indians of North America--Washington Territory--Maps, Manuscript Kettle Falls Fort Colville Cascade Mountains Blue Mountains Idaho Territory
1 map: blueprint, hand col., 39 x 48 cm. Map shows location of northeastern Washington Territory, with the Colville region outlined in red. It also shows a large portion of northern Idaho territory, established in 1863. Major landforms such as the Blue and Cascade Mountain ranges and the Columbia River are shown. The first white settlement in this area was Fort Colville (1826-1871), located north of Kettle Falls on the Columbia River. (Kettle Falls was the ancestral fishing site for many Native American tribes, but now lies under Lake Roosevelt, the reservoir of Grand Coulee Dam.) Fort Colville began as a fur trading post until 1846, when it then took on the business of supplying pioneers arriving after the 49th parallel boundary settlement between Great Britain and the United States. One year after its closing, the Colville Indian Reservation was established under a Executive Order signed by President U.S. Grant. This map is most likely drawn by (or for) one of the first Indian Agents of the reservation--Mr. William Parkhurst Winans. Removed from his office in 1873 and replaced by John A. Simms, Winans was known to have worked with a number of white settlers living in the Colville Valley to successfully petition the removal of the reservation from choice land on one side of the Columbia to barren highlands on the other side.
Is part of William Parkhurst Winans Papers, 1815-1917 http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg147.htm
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Maps of the Alaska Steamship Company, the Puget Sound Navigation Company routes (1904)
Steamboat lines -- Alaska -- Maps Steamboat lines -- Washington (State) -- Puget Sound -- Maps Steamboat lines -- British Columbia -- Maps
3 maps on 1 sheet : col. ; each 58 x 40 cm. or smaller, sheet 82 x 44 cm., folded to 22 x 11 cm. Relief shown by hachures Shows steamship routes and includes table of distances Text and col. ill. on verso At head of panel title: Black Ball Line "June, 1904." Panel title: Black Ball Line, the Alaska Steamship Co. Back panel title: Puget Sound Navigation Co. Scales differ
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Map of Columbia River from its mouth to Fort Vancouver at 17 measures of 10,000 meters from the sea. Carte du Rio Colombia depuis son embouchure jusqu'au Fort Vancouver a 17 Myriametres de la mer, (1844)
Washington (State)--Rivers--Maps Columbia River--Maps
1 map : col. ; 23 x 41 cm. From: Exploration du territoire de l'Oregon, des Californies et de la mer Vermeille, executee pendant les annees 1840, 1841 et 1842, par M. Duflot de Mofras, [Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1844] Plate no. 18 Vice Consul for France in the early 1840s, M. Eugene Duflot de Mofras investigated California and the Pacific Coast for his country. France was still interested in the area, and it was Duflot de Mofras' job to report the possibility of setting up a post in the region. During his journeys he traveled through California (Monterrey, San Diego, the Ross Settlement and others) as well as Fort Vancouver and the Columbia River. This steel-engraved, hand-colored map, drawn for his two volume report, charts the course of the Columbia River. Duflot de Mofras was influential in the idea that the Columbia River was not suitable for an ocean port. In fact, he described the sand bar near Cape Disappointment as a "hideous spectacle...with foam cloaking the horizon far out at sea as if to form an insurmountable barrier to ships entering or leaving the river."
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Map of campus, State College of Washington, Pullman, Wash. (1913)
Washington State University--Maps Pullman (Wash.)--Maps Rogers Field Soldier's Field Silver Lake Lake de Puddle Mechanical Arts Building Wilson Hall John A. Finch Memorial Hospital
1 map; 18 x 32 cm. A map of the campus of Washington State's land-grant school--Washington State College. Set up initially with a focus on agriculture, by 1913 it also included courses in business, foreign languages, home economics, pharmaceuticals and veterinary medicine. A number of buildings no longer standing on the present campus are represented on this map. For example, the hospital situated to the right of College Hall was built in 1903. Construction for the new John A. Finch Memorial hospital began in 1928 and was located south of this map's boundaries. A women's dormitory shortage in 1930 brought the old hospital a new use, however, when thirty female students claimed a home out of its quarters and changed the hospital's name to "Maple Cottage". A number of new buildings were constructed around the time of this map as well. In 1913 the President's Mansion was built, and from 1912 to 1915 workers began both the Mechanical Arts Building and Wilson Hall, then known as the Agricultural Building. Note also the northeast portion of this map. Silver Lake is no longer a part of the campus, but in 1899 the school purchased six acres lying north of the athletic fields and a one and a half acre lake--known affectionately by students as Lake de Puddle--was formed. To make room for gyms and the Bailey baseball field, Silver Lake was drained in 1927. However, one recreation area has withstood the many developments of the school and is present today--Rogers Field. In 1894, just two years following the school's opening, students already felt the necessity of a playfield. Originally, the area was known as "Soldier's Field", but its name was changed in 1902 to honor Washington State's Governor John R. Rogers.
Pullman (Wash.) : Washington State University
In part of Catalogue of the State College of Washington, 1913 / Pullman, WA : State College of Washington
United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Washington State University--Pullman
Washington State University--Maps Pullman (Wash.)--Maps
1 map; 36 x 31 cm. Scale 400'=1" TWP 14& 15 N. R. 45 E. Map contains key to buildings, halls, and churches. The town of Pullman was not more than fifteen years old when it won the honor of establishing the land grant college for Washington State in 1892. While the school began atop College Hill with no more than five buildings in its first few years, by 1913 it held a respectable number of classroom buildings, dormitories, recreation and sports fields, and even greek houses. In 1913, builders completed construction on the President's Mansion, and was in the middle of building both Wilson Hall (for agriculture classes and labs) and the Mechanic Arts Building.
United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Washington State University
Map of the campus, State College of Washington, Pullman, Wash., (1942)
Washington State University--Maps Pullman (Wash.)--Maps Stimson Hall Pine Manor Waller Hall
1 map; 14 x 19 cm. A small map of the campus of Washington State College in Pullman, Washington. During World War II, WSC learned that while it was located in rural Washington State, it still could hold an important place in the success of the war effort. In 1939 it began a number of training courses and housed a number of Army recruits. Victory gardens and crops were planted all over the conducive Palouse hills, and both students and faculty alike left campus and put their careers on hold to help the war effort. Many students went off to fight, while many faculty went to work for the government--their scientific expertise providing a great service toward the nation's defense. With the return of these students, plus many more making use of the G.I. Bill, the school experienced a great housing shortage and a number of laboratories and classrooms were in an irreparable state. In 1942, the men's dorms, Stimson and Ferry Hall, had been turned over strictly for military use. Civilian students were housed only in Waller Hall or privately run Pine Manor. The only campus dormitory that ran as a cooperative completely operated by students, Pine Manor was built in 1938 and boarded 85 men. It closed its doors sometime in the 1960s but greatly helped the postwar housing shortage.
Map of campus State College of Washington, Pullman, Wash. (1950)
1 map; 23 x 31 cm. The campus of the state's land grant school--Washington State College in Pullman, Washington. By 1950, WSC had developed into an institution claiming over five thousand students. Four major changes took place in the five years following the war. An increase in enrollment due to the G.I. Bill, caused an urgent need for temporary housing. The Army responded by donating a number of surplus living quarters and furniture left over from wartime cantonments. While other units were placed on campus elsewhere, the main area of growth sprung up along the boundary of the WSC golf course and were appropriately named North, East and South Fairway. Peacetime also signaled the arrival of a new president. E.O. Holland, following a stint of ill health, stepped down from the position he had held for three decades and took an advisory position in the library. He was replaced by Wilson M. Compton, who sought increased faculty satisfaction and student physical and mental well-being. The latter goal resulted in more campus activities, counseling services, and the construction of a student union building in 1951. Up until this time, students used the old women's gymnasium, but that building was razed to make room for another major addition soon to arrive on campus--a state-of-the-art library. Plans for an improved library facility had been in the works since 1937. By the time funds became available after the war, it was apparent to all that an architectural "monument" as originally slated under the Holland administration would no longer suffice. With the appointment of Dr. G Donald Smith as library director, the designs were re-drafted to reflect modern needs. This meant not only space for microfilm and movies, but also the centralization of the library's entire collection into one building. Before, the collections were held in a variety of short-term repositories beyond that of Bryan Hall because of lack of storage space. Among these included the Home Economics Building, the Women's Gym and even the Rifle Range. On this map a building marked "library storage" attests to this practice. The improved library increased the viability of a competitive graduate program and, along with President Compton's efforts to establish WSC as a center for technological and industrial advancement, easily placed the college in a position to obtain university status in 1959.
State College of Washington Pullman Washington sketch study for general arrangement of buildings (1937)
Washington State University--Maps Pullman (Wash.)--Maps landscape architecture Morell & Nichols, Inc. Arbor Day Moscow Mountain
1 map; 20 x 20 cm. In 1892, Washington's land-grant college (Washington Agriculture College as it was then called) had its beginnings on a barren, dusty hilltop overlooking the young town of Pullman. While a number of years and many methods were spent attempting to beautify the school, by it's twentieth anniversary comments were still heard around campus regarding the school's ungainliness. Much of the problem stemmed from the inability of transplanted trees and shrubs to thrive in their new environment--despite the best attempts of successive Horticulture Department heads. Even the students pitched in to help, annually planting trees on Arbor Day (many of which came from Moscow Mountain) and taking one day of the year for a campus clean-up session. However, not until around 1920 were professional landscape designers brought in for consultation on the problem. Improvements thereafter came swiftly and successfully, and a few respected firms, such as the authors of this 1937 landscape study--Morell & Nichols, Inc. of Minneapolis, Minnesota--gained regular employment. In time, this and other firms developed the campus into something "creditable" and collegial looking.
Morell & Nichols Inc. Nichols Nason & Cornell Smith, Stanely A.
Map of Pullman and the State College of Washington, (1920)
Washington State University--Maps Pullman (Wash.)--Maps Bryan, E.A. Van Doren Hall Mechanic Arts Building Administration Building College Hill Bryan Hall Ferry Hall Stevens Hall College Hall
1 map; 26 x 34 cm. Scale 1/8"=100' Map includes building, street, and church directories. Business district and paved streets are indicated. Map prepared by Highway Engineering Department of the State Agriculture College (WSU). Under the Morrill Act of 1862, all states were granted land on which to develop a college focused on the advancement of agriculture. The 1877 Hatch Act added to this donation, by funding scientific research at these institutions for its dissemination to the general public. The goal for both was to raise the level of farming practices everywhere. Pullman, a town dominated by a wheat-growing economy, fought for and won the right to the land grant in 1892. Under the administration of its second president, E.A. Bryan (1893-1916), the first wave of extensive building took place on campus. The Mechanic Arts Building, a womens dormitory later called Stevens Hall, and the Administration Building on College Hill were constructed in 1895. The brick and granite Administration Building was home to labs, library, classrooms and an assembly hall. Trees originating from nearby Moscow Mountain were transplanted on campus during the first Arbor Day celebration in 1896, and a men's dormitory, Ferry Hall, came in 1897. Science Hall (1900), located in what is now half of the Morrow Building, boasted labs and lecture rooms and even museums. By 1908 the Domestic Economy department grew in both stature and size to where it earned its own building, Van Doren Hall. This new building was joined that year by Bryan Hall, first called the Library and Assembly Hall, College Hall for recitation classes, and a number of farm buildings, a hydraulic lab, and a veterinary hospital wing. All of these buildings and more can be seen on this map. By June, 1917 the school held five colleges: Agriculture, Mechanical Arts and Engineering, Sciences and Arts, Veterinary Science, and Home Economics. It also had four schools: Mines, Education, Pharmacy and Music/Applied Design.
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Map of Pullman and the State College of Washington, (1939)
1 map; 27 x 34 cm. Scale 1/8"=100' Revised January 1939 by O.A. Map includes sorority, fraternity, building, street, and church directories. Business district and paved streets are indicated. As early as 1915, President Bryan commented on the arrival of fraternities and sororities at the Washington State College campus. Five national fraternities and four sororities soon made visible additions to campus life. By 1936, the number of students living in Greek houses nearly matched that of dormitory residents. This 1939 map of campus and downtown Pullman documents the rapid expansion of the system at WSC, which totaled thirty-four Greek houses on campus at that time and an enrollment of 4,035 students. Leading up to that point, however, the 1930s Great Depression hindered campus living somewhat, and left many students out of dorms completely. A number of young men lived out the school year in self-built shacks on empty properties around the campus. While the economy improved by 1939, new buildings or additions would not be constructed until a few years after World War II. Post-war students and faculty made do with shipped-in structures and furniture surplus no longer needed by the Army.
Map of campus, State College of Washington, Pullman, Wash., (1938)
Washington State University--Maps Pullman (Wash.)--Maps Stadium Loop Highway Stadium Way
1 map; 20 x 26 cm. Map of the campus of Washington State College in Pullman, Washington. This map shows the footprints of main buildings on campus in 1938. While it designates the major roads running through the campus, it does not name them. It also has a faint trace in the lower right-hand corner of a title, written in pencil and then erased. The golf clubhouse title and building are also painted over in white. These corrections suggest that the drawing was an early map template. The same general format was used in the printed map of around 1942. The 1942 map has some additions and reductions to the buildings, but more importantly, it names the area's streets and looks like a finished, polished product. By the time of this map, the field house and Bohler gym were reaching their twelfth year, as was the hospital. Following World War II, the horse barn, incubator and brooder house area were razed--to be replaced by new dormitories and the right of way of the Stadium Loop Highway (Stadium Way). The old power house on this map became the fire station not long after the drafting of this map.
Map of Pullman and the State College of Washington, (1928)
Washington State University--Maps Pullman (Wash.)--Maps Washington State College Washington Agriculture School
1 map; 26 x 34 cm. Scale 1/8"=100' Map includes building, street, and church directories. Business district and paved streets are indicated. This map was prepared by the Highway Engineering Department of Washington State College (WSU). Opening its doors to students in 1892 as a land-grant school, the Washington Agricultural College had about five buildings and three major fields of study: agriculture, mechanic arts, and domestic science. The school grew within the decade however, and new departments were formed. The school changed its name in 1905 to Washington State College in part to reflect these additions. While times were lean during World War I and directly after, by 1928 the nation experienced a surge in its economy. Washington State College was no different. A number of buildings were completed during this time, including White Hall and Troy Hall, the Hospital and the field house. Within the decade of the 1920s also came the additions of the Student's Book Store and the Radio Station--KWSC.
Map of campus State College of Washington Pullman, (1935)
1 map: 14 x 19 cm. A small, footprint map of the State College of Washington campus. The map does not include street names, but all buildings are identified. Many of the periphery buildings on this map were a product of the upswing in the national economy during 1928 and early 1929. A number of buildings were constructed at this time, including the large and important addition of a hospital (see to the left of the title.) Troy Hall, which was built in 1926 and housed the dairy industry department, was the last substantial building before this surge. A budget crisis in the 1930s resulted in little construction being undertaken. In fact, in 1933-34, both Ferry Hall (men's) and Steven's Hall (women's) dormitories were closed down. Of the students that continued in their studies, many of the men lived in makeshift shacks, dotted throughout campus and in town, or wherever unoccupied land was available.
Plat map of Malden, (1910) Plat book of Whitman County, Washington compiled and published from actual surveys and the County records by Anderson Map Company
Malden (Wash.)--Maps Whitman County (Wash.) -- Maps
1 map: col., 46 x 40 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Malden. Scale 400'=1" Located twenty miles north of Colfax, the town of Malden, Washington was named by the then Vice President of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway--Mr. H. R. Williams. When his company extended their rail to the Puget Sound, they chose the Malden area as a "division point". No town site had yet existed there, but it would soon become a stopping point for the "Milwaukee Road"'s change crew, their repair and stock shops, and administrative offices. Soon following the construction of the C.M. & P.S. Railway's station, freight depot, roundhouse, and switchyard in 1909, Malden town boasted of eighty buildings and a population of nearly 450. In 1910, the year of this plat map, the census showed 798 people and growing. However, Malden could never diversify its economy and when--due to technological advancements and a reduction in rail use in America--the C.M. & P.S. line closed their Puget Sound line in 1980, the town had already suffered a substantial decrease in population (around 200), and by then railroad families had moved on for work. (For more information on the Palouse region's division points on railway lines, see Dale Martin's WSU Thesis: "Tekoa and Malden: a history of two railroad towns in eastern Washington", 1984.)
Is part of Plat Book of Whitman County Washington Compiled and Published from actual Surveys and the County Records by Anderson Map Company Seattle, Wash 1910
United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Malden
Plat maps of Thornton and Elberton, (1910) Plat book of Whitman County, Washington compiled and published from actual surveys and the County records by Anderson Map Company
Thornton (Wash.)--Maps Elberton (Wash.)--Maps Whitman County (Wash.) -- Maps Leid, John Weber Oregon & Washington Railway & Navigation Co. Washington & Idaho Railroad Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. Oregon Evaporated Company Newberry, W. Allen
1 map: col., 44 x 35 cm. Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Thornton and Elberton. Scale 400'=1" Elberton, named after Elbert, the deceased son of plat filer Sylvester M. Wait in 1886, began as the site of a mill. Located 12 miles northeast of Colfax, the Palouse River runs directly through the town. Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections at WSU has the manuscript history of the town and one of it's earliest settlers, Mr. John Weber Leid. Sites shown on this map are discussed in Leid's manuscript, including the Oregon, Washington Railway and Navigation Depot (O.W.R.& N.) built in 1888, the post office, run by Mr. Joe McCoy, and the two room school house. The school, built in 1890, soon had an addition of two more rooms, but with the economic success that came with the railroad, the town grew so fast that a store was rented downtown for classrooms. Elberton's main economy was the saw mill, but there was also a flour mill, which is shown on this map. Another interesting business in town was the Oregon Evaporated Co. owned by W. Allen Newberry. Begun in 1902, the company owned the distinction of being the largest prune dehydrator in the world. Thornton, begun around the same time, was a stop on the "Pleasant Valley Line" of the Washington & Idaho Railroad, a subsidiary of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. The Pleasant Valley Line ran from Winona to Seltice--stopping in Thornton.
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Plat maps of St. John, and Winona, (1910) Plat book of Whitman County, Washington compiled and published from actual surveys and the County records by Anderson Map Company.
St. John (Wash.)--Maps Winona (Wash.)--Maps Whitman County (Wash.) -- Maps Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. Union Pacific Railroad Pleasant Valley Line
1 map: col., 44 x 30 cm. Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of St. John, and Winona scale 400'=1" At Pleasant Valley Creek, eighteen miles northwest of Colfax, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. platted and filed the town in 1888. The railway officials named the town for an early settler--Mr. Edward T. St. John. St. John donated much of the original town land, on the provision that the square block in the center of town would always be a park. In 1888-89, the Oregon Railway Extension Co. built a line running into St. John. This line later became a part of the Washington Division of the Pleasant Valley Branch, which in time was taken over by the Union Pacific. Not much is known of the early development of Winona, except that the Washington and Idaho Railroad, a subsidiary of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. began the Pleasant Valley line to travel from Winona to Seltice by way of Thornton. Winona was named after one of the surveyors' home town--Winona, Minnesota. As stated above, Union Pacific bought out the O.R.& N.Co.'s line, and by 1925 wanted to end the Pleasant Valley road. However, UPRR did not receive government approval of the termination until the early 1930s.
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Plat map of Steptoe, (1910) Plat book of Whitman County, Washington compiled and published from actual surveys and the County records by Anderson Map Company
Washington--State Steptoe, Lt. Col. Edward J. Railroad Land and Improvement Co. Tennessee Flat
1 map: col., 42 x 34 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Steptoe. Scale 400'=1" The area now known as the town of Steptoe was called Steptoe Station at first. This is because the town began as a siding, or flag stop, for the railroad. Records show that as early as 1875 the area had a post office. By 1890 it had a school district known by the area's main benchland--Tennessee Flat. However, with the arrival of the track running from Spokane to Colfax, the name was changed and in 1907 the Railroad Land and Improvement Co. platted the area for a proper townsite. The town was named in recognition of Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Steptoe, who had battled with local Native Americans at a butte near Rosalia in the 1850s. The town is located about 10 miles from Colfax.
United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Steptoe
Plat map of Union Town, (1910) Plat book of Whitman County, Washington compiled and published from actual surveys and the County records by Anderson Map Company
Union Town (Wash.)--Maps Whitman County (Wash.) -- Maps
1 map: col., 40 x 32 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Farmington. Scale 400'=1" Located between Union Flat, the earliest settlement founded in Whitman County (1869), and Cow Creek (1879), Union Town was named by Jesuit missionary Fr. Joseph Cataldo for its connection between the two. The Post Office was established in 1878 and the town incorporated in 1888. Due to technicalities in the filing of the report, the town was officially incorporated in 1890.
United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Union Town
Plat maps of Hooper, Chambers and La Crosse, (1910) Plat book of Whitman County, Washington compiled and published from actual surveys and the County records by Anderson Map Company
Hooper (Wash.)--Maps Chambers (Wash.)--Maps La Crosse (Wash.)--Maps Whitman County (Wash.) -- Maps Shobe, Harding Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. Riparia--Washington (State) Dunlor Granite Palouse River
1 map: col, 43 x 30 cm. Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Hooper, Chambers and La Crosse scale 400'=1" Chambers has been described as an "odd-shaped town", consisting of one to five block streets. The shortest street, Granite, ran along beside the Northern Pacific Railroad. The name Granite was at times given to the school district as well. (The school, begun on Drain Street in 1893, consolidated with Pullman in 1938). Chambers did not grow much and the post office--started in 1901--closed down just five years later. The small town of Hooper was named after early settler, Albert J. Hooper. However, he never owned land in the actual town, set up by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. He was honored by them because he had a good ranch nearby. The real founders of Hooper, the McGregor Brothers, came in 1888. They worked hard and eventually opened a store there in 1900 that remained in business for a long time after. Hooper lies on the east bank of the Palouse River. LaCrosse began as a post office station in 1892 and was at that time known as Dunlor. There are two stories regarding the naming of the town. The Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. built a line from Riparia to LaCrosse in 1888. One of its surveyors hailed from LaCrosse, Wisconsin and so named the town. Another story says that the town is named after its numerous cross streets. Whichever story is correct, in 1896, the Post Office name was changed to match the town. The town did not incorporate until 1917, but chose 1899 settler, Harding Shobe, as its first mayor. Shobe land is shown on the map.
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Plat maps Endicott, Almota, Revere, Pandora, and Palisades, (1910) Plat book of Whitman County, Washington compiled and published from actual surveys and the County records by Anderson Map Company
Endicott (Wash.)--Maps Almota (Wash.)--Maps Revere (Wash.)--Maps Pandora (Wash.)--Maps Palisades (Wash.)--Maps Whitman County (Wash.) -- Maps
1 map: col., 41 x 34 cm. Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Endicott, Almota, Revere, Pandora, and Palisades. Endicott and Almota scale 400'=1" Revere, Pandora, and Palisades scale 800'=1" Of the five platted towns, only Endicott and Almota grew to any significance. In 1909 the Milwaukee Road, a part of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, held an auction in Spokane for land at five locations along their tracks. Among them was Pandora. It lay eight miles north of Oakesdale, in the Pine Creek Valley. The C.M.S.P RR also named the town of Revere--located 30 miles northwest of Colfax--after Paul Revere. Some people already lived in the area prior to the coming of the C.M.P.S., and even a school was established in 1910. Much less information is available, however, for the C.M.P.S. flag stop known as Palisade. It lay on the northeast side of Rock Lake and so at times was even called "Rock Lake Station" instead. Endicott was founded in 1882 by the Oregon Land and Improvement Co., and was named for William Endicott, Jr., a shareholder in the company. Prior to this name settlers from the confederacy called the area "Rebel Flat". A number of German-Russians settled there during the years 1882-1907, buying land communally and splitting it among them. Almota, on the north side of the Snake River almost 40 miles above Clarkston, was early on used by Nez Perce Indians as a fishing site. "Allamotin", "Almotine", and even "Alto Motin" have been given as Nez Perce names for the area, meaning "torchlight" or "moonlight fishing". Almota, soon became the trading/shipping center for all of Inland Empire, but lost some of its business when rail lines arrived in Colfax in 1883. The Oregon, Washington and Idaho Railroad and the Snake River Valley Railroad would not arrive in Almota until 1907. Today it is located near Lake Bryan, the reservoir formed from the construction of the Little Goose Dam.
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Plat maps of Colton, Staley, and Diamond, (1910) Plat book of Whitman County, Washington compiled and published from actual surveys and the County records by Anderson Map Company
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1 map: col., 39 x 27 cm. Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Colton, Staley and Diamond. Colton scale 400'=1" Staley scale 400'=1" Diamond scale 400'=1" The town of Colton, eleven miles south of Pullman, began as a settlement in 1879. Mr. Gregor Koshir filed the town plat in 1881 and it was incorporated the year following. There are a number of variances regarding the naming of the town. Some records say that it was named for Dr. J.A. Cole, the town's benefactor who helped obtain the post office and school in 1879 and 1889, respectively. Other reports say it was named through the joining of the names of two settlers: Cole and Worthington. Still another tale suggests that it was named by Dr. Cole, Ray Woodworth, and L.J. Wolford. These three supposedly took the "Col" of Cole and "ton" from Clinton--the son of L.J. Wolford. Early Colton had a large Catholic contingency. In 1892 the Benedictine Sisters arrived, establishing St. Andrews Convent and a school. They remained to teach until 1937, when the entire convent returned to their home base in Cottonwood, Idaho. In 1937, however, the Notre Dame Sisters arrived to continue the school. Staley, just five miles south of Pullman, was soon enveloped by the college town. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Staley (some records report that it was David Staley), purposely platted the town in the hopes that its proximity to the Northern Pacific Railroad line would ensure its success. Nine miles west of Colfax on Rebel Flat, Mr. Q. Diamond platted a town and named it after himself circa 1886. The Columbia and Palouse Railroad (later sold to Union Pacific) ran through Rebel Flat. The town school, begun in the 1890s, consolidated with Colfax by 1938 and the post office closed in 1956.
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Plat map of Farmington, (1910) Plat book of Whitman County, Washington compiled and published from actual surveys and the County records by Anderson Map Company
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1 map: col., 46 x 40 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Farmington. Scale 400'=1" In 1886, the Oregon and Washington Railway & Navigation Co. built track running from Portland into eastern Washington. The track ended at Farmington, named after Farmington, Minnesota, the hometown of plat filer George Washington Campbell Traux. Arriving there with a few other pioneers in the early 1870s, Traux took advantage of the availability of cheap land, and had a survey done of eighty acres for town plats. The town incorporated in 1888. While stock raising was the first economy in the area, wheat growers soon took over, and sent their goods to nearby Almota to be shipped off to market. Another local trade was found in forming shakes for roofs. These hand crafted items were made from local cedar. In the early days (1870s)search parties were often formed to look for children who had gotten lost in the bunchgrass on their way to school! However, by the 1890s the area was well on its way to development and a number of businesses could be found there, including a general store, blacksmith, livery stable, meat market, hotel, hardware, drugstore, creamery, brewery, flourmill, brick factory and even a planing mill. By the 1890s the population reached over 1,000. Yet this pace would not be maintained into the next decade. The population took a steady decline following the transfer of the railroad line to Tekoa, Washington in the early 1900s. Of historical note: a number of Chinese settlers also lived in Farmington. Two full blocks on Washington Street was considered to be a Chinatown district. Also during this time period, two fires changed look of the town's business sector. The first fire came in 1897. The second, in 1906, burned down the town hall where city records were kept.
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Plat map of Garfield, (1910) Plat book of Whitman County, Washington compiled and published from actual surveys and the County records by Anderson Map Company.
Garfield (Wash.)--Maps Whitman County (Wash.) -- Maps Northern Pacific Railroad Columbia and Palouse Railroad Tant, James B. Garfield, President James A.
1 map: col., 40 x 36 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Garfield Washington. Scale 400'=1" Located eighteen miles northeast of Colfax, the town of Garfield was platted by landowner Samuel J. Tant in 1881. The plat was filed and the town incorporated in 1887, and was named by Tant after President James A. Garfield. Even before the plat was filed settlers began to build up the town. In 1883 the Giles Brothers built the first store there. One year later members constructed the Baptist Church. The Columbia and Palouse Railroad built a line in the area in 1885-86, and were soon followed by the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Plat Book of Whitman County Washington Compiled and Published from actual Surveys and the County Records by Anderson Map Company Seattle, Wash 1910
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Plat maps of Belmont, Hay, and Pine City, (1910) Plat book of Whitman County, Washington compiled and published from actual surveys and the County records by Anderson Map Company.
Belmont (Wash.)--Maps Hay (Wash.)--Maps Pine City (Wash.)--Maps Whitman County (Wash.) -- Maps Anderson-Edwards Flour Mill Texas Ferry Road Dodson, Z.F. Northern Pacific Railroad Belmont, August Burlington Northern Railroad
1 map: col., 41 x 31 cm. Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Belmont, Hay, and Pine City, Washington. Belmont scale 600'=1" Hay scale 400'=1" Pine City scale 400'=1" A past director of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Mr. August Belmont, was given recognition when the town of Belmont, Washington was named after him in 1885. However, as with other Whitman County towns, other stories as to the name's origin have been suggested. Among these is the theory that Belmont means "beautiful mountain" and refers to the scenic view from there of Steptoe Butte. Another report said that there was a Belmont family that pioneered in the area. However it received its name, Belmont remained the NPRR rail terminus for only two years, when that distinction was pushed on to Lewiston, Idaho. Today it lies along the Burlington Northern line, and claims a few homes and a grain elevator. Hay, Washington's naming stories run along similar lines: apparently the siding (flag stop for the Oregon Railway & Navigation Railroad) was stocked with an abundance of much needed Hay during the blizzard of 1893. It became known as "Hay Station" and later, just Hay. The town itself did not expand greatly until the 1920s and 1930s, when many of its buildings were constructed. Pine City's beginnings was as a stage, not railroad station, of the Texas Ferry Road. The road ran from Walla Walla to Colville, and was originally an Indian road called "Texas Trail." Mr. Z.F. Dodson, an 1878 settler, platted the town in 1881. In just that first year, the town held a number of businesses, including a doctor's office, the Anderson-Edwards Four Mill, a number of general stores, a hotel, livery, blacksmith shop and a saloon. The Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad came in 1905, and the mill was moved from its original site to make room for it.
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Map of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana, (1867)
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1 map: col., 36 x 29 cm. In 1831, S. Augustus Mitchell, a teacher from Connecticut, began a publishing firm in Philadelphia. By 1845, Mitchell purchased the copyright to The New Universal Atlas, the product of one of the fathers of American mapmakers--Henry Shenck Tanner. One of the first to employ the printing method of lithography, Mitchell was also one of the early users of a chromolithographed, decorative border. When Mitchell retired from the business in 1860, his son, S. Augustus, Jr. took his place. The company continued to prosper under his direction, and at its height employed over 250 workers and held 400,000 annual publications. This map further refines previous maps: of immediate note is the much more defined border between Idaho and Montana. This map seems to anticipate the formation of the Wyoming Territory. Though discussed as early as 1865, it didn't come to pass until 1868, at which time the Idaho/Wyoming border was also rewritten at the last moment.
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Map Showing Indian Tribes Near Ft. Colville, (ca. 1871).
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1 ms. map: hand col., 21 x 27 cm. William Parkhurst Winans worked from 1870 to 1872 as Indian Sub-Agent for the tribes surrounding Fort Colville in Stevens County, Washington Territory. This hand drawn map delineates the area and number of the tribes for which he was hired to serve. Note the numbers written next to the tribe names. These numbers represent the population total for each of the tribes: Methow (311), Okanogan (340), San Poels (538), Spokans (725), Colvills (631), Callispels (420), Lakes (230) and Coeur d' Alenes (154). At the time this map was drawn, the total population of whites living in the Colville Valley area came to approximately less than 400, including women and children. However, Winans and other Colville locals pressed President Grant to change the reservation boundary lines installed in 1871, citing the disturbance that would surely ensue should the whites be forced from their already improved claims. Trusting the settler's testimonials, Grant unwittingly removed the Indians to desolate highlands on the opposite side of their Columbia River homelands and away from their ancestral fishery at Kettle Falls. The Department of Indian Affairs soon became aware of Winans' chicanery, and while the President did not reinstate the original reservation lands, Winans was replaced by Indian Agent John A. Simms in 1872.
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Map of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, (1860).
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1 map: col., 37 x 30 cm. This map dates between March 2nd, 1861 (when the Dakota Territory was formed) and March 4th, 1863 (when the Idaho Territory was formed from eastern Washington and western Dakota) Nearing retirement from a thirty year long and rather successful career, S. Augustus Mitchell printed this map showcasing Oregon, the Territory of Washington, and British Columbia. Washington became a territory in 1853, arguing that distances to Willamette Valley kept them from obtaining a voice in the Oregon territorial government. As this map shows, when it split from Oregon proper the Washington territory included parts of Wyoming and Montana and all of Idaho. Territorial government for Idaho would not be approved until 1863. When Mitchell retired he left the business for his son to manage.
Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868.
[Philadelphia: Mitchell, S. Augustus, 1860]
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