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Union Gap Pioneer Cemetery: An early settler in the Red Mountain Wine Region: Though its 4,040 acres Pasco: Located at the confluence of the Snake and L’Ecole No. 41: Founded by Baker and Jean Seattle 13 Yakima Valley, Dr. Lewis H. Goodwin, lost his wife 16 of scrubby desert-dry sandy loam slopes may not 20 Columbia rivers and at the junction of the Northern 23 Ferguson in 1983, L’Ecole No. 41 is the third- Lake Sammamish State Park Priscilla in 1865. He donated the land, at the end of East constitute what some consider an actual “mountain,” the Red Pacific and Oregon Railway & Navigation Company rail oldest winery in the Walla Walla Valley and is known Ahtanum Road, around her burial site near the Mountain appellation looms large in the world of North- lines, Pasco has long been a transportation hub. It replaced for sustainably produced wines with an international to the city for use as a cemetery. Many early Yakima Valley west wine. Even before the Yakima River-bordered area was Ainsworth, established two miles down the Columbia in 1879, reputation. Originally built in 1915 as part of the Fall City settlers are buried here. granted official AVA status in 2001, the exceptional grapes as a construction camp for the Northern Pacific Railway. The Frenchtown settlement along the Walla Walla River, Issaquah 1 grown in its windy vineyards had earned a towering reputa- town grew as freight and passengers connected there with the historic schoolhouse that houses the tasting room Battle of Two Buttes: On November 9, 1855, U.S. Army

e tion. Pioneering wineries like Kiona, Blackwood Canyon, and multiple train routes and steamers. functioned as a school until 1974. The name (“L’Ecole” 2 North Bend soldiers and Oregon and volunteers fought Hedges Cellars blazed the dusty trail, and today there are at is French for “school”) honors the work of the valley’s

g with a group of Yakamas and members of other tribes led least 18 wineries and 1,200 acres of vineyards including Cara : People from many tribes met early French settlers bringing vineyards and winemak- n by Kamiakin at Union Gap (also known as Two Buttes) on Mia, Ciel du Cheval, Grand Ciel, Klipsun, and Tapteil. at the site of Sacajawea State Park to fish, trade, and ing to the region. 41 Lowden School Rd, 509-525-0940,

a the Yakima River. The encounter known as the Battle of socialize. Railroad tracks, steamboats, and roads crossed there, www.lecole.com Issaquah: Issaquah incorporated in 1892. Orgin- 3 Two Buttes was actually just a skirmish. For months Yakamas Benton City at Horn Rapids County Park: and people continue to come together in the park. Seven ally known as Squak, it attracted settlers who R 1 fought against the terms of a treaty signed the previous June 17 Benton City, platted in 1909, is located in the story circles created by artist Maya Lin for the Confluence Proj- Frenchtown Historic Site: French Canadian mined coal, cut timber, grew hops, and ran dairy opera- 4 and against illegal settlement of their lands. Historical markers midst of several wagon roads that connect the transportation ect tell the area’s human and natural history. 2503 Sacajawea 24 trappers who had worked for the North tions. It was reached via a wagon road after 1867 or by e placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution and by hub at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake rivers with Park Rd, 509-545-2361, www.parks.wa.gov/575/Sacajawea West and Hudson’s Bay companies established French- steamers on Lake Washington and Squak Lake (now Lake d the Yakama Tribe are located on southbound Main Street just Yakima and Puget Sound. The Yakima River was not navigable town in 1824 along the north side of the Walla Walla Sammamish). Steamer passengers boarded at landings 5 before the freeway onramp. for steamboats so travelers used several overland routes. The Franklin County Historical Society and Museum tells River, in the area between Lowden and Whitman. Their a Kachess Lake just west of today’s Lake Sammamish State Park. Over- c Keechelus main one followed the Yakima River toward the mountains. the story of early transportation and agriculture in the cabins were interspersed with existing Indian homes. land travelers followed a route around Cougar Mountain s Lake Central Washington Agricultural Museum explores how Another followed the Yakima River to its northernmost point, area. 305 N 4th Ave, 509-547-3714, The U.S. Army forced most of Frenchtown’s inhabitants to the south end of Lake Washington, where it met the a Cle Elum Lake the region’s land has been worked and settled. 4508 where Horn Rapids County Park is today, then split, with one http://franklincountyhistoricalsociety.org out of their homes during the Indian Wars, but a num- Steilacoom-Seattle military road. The wagon road would Main St, 509-457-8735, http://centralwaagmuseum.org leg going northeast to White Bluffs and the other going ber of their descendants remain in the area. 509-629- become the route of the Sunset Highway in 1915 and C northwest to Rattlesnake Springs. The northern routes are Wallula Cemetery: Graves in Wallula Cemetery, on 0044, www.frenchtownpartners.zoomshare.com eventually, with some realignments, Interstate 90. closed to the public as part of the . 21 the north side of town, were originally located at Easton the first and second sites of the town of Wallula, both now Walla Walla Valley Historical Markers: East of Lake Sammamish State Park: 2000 NW Sammamish Cle Elum Richland: The Interpretive Center under Lake Wallula. In 1953, when the city was moved to the Frenchtown site, historical markers along Old Rd, 425-455-7010, www.parks.wa.gov 18 tells the story of the natural, scientific, and cultural make way for the reservoir behind McNary Dam, all marked Highway 12 document several events. Wagon trains history of the region. 1943 Columbia Park Trail, 509-943-4100, graves were moved to the new hilltop townsite. Burials date from the East traveled through the Walla Walla Valley North Bend: Originally called Ranger’s Prairie www.visitthereach.org to the 1890s and include a number of the area’s early settlers. to reach the Columbia River in the 1840s, increasing ten- 2 and incorporated in 1909, North Bend was the sions between the Indians and the Whitmans, who ran jumping-off point for the Snoqualmie Pass wagon road 6 Fort Walla Walla: In July 1818 the North West Company the nearby mission, and leading to a devastating attack constructed between 1865 and 1867. Conflict over pos- F opened a fur-trading post at the confluence of the in 1847 by the Cayuse. The Oregon Mounted Volun- sible routes led road builders to focus on the road east of ores Columbia and Walla Walla rivers. Originally called Fort Nez teers fought Walla Walla, Cayuse, , and Yakama Ranger’s Prairie, leaving other communities to build their t & Perces, it was renamed Fort Walla Walla when the North West W tribesmen amid the recently vacated Frenchtown cabins own connections to it. A road from Seattle to Ranger’s i Company and the Hudson’s Bay Company merged in 1821. In during the four-day Battle of Walla Walla in December Prairie was completed in 1867. The prairie could also be Driving directions: From I-90, take Exit 78. ld October 1841, the wooden buildings at the post burned down 1855, during which Walla Walla leader Peo-Peo-Mox- reached from South Puget Sound communities via the l and were rebuilt with adobe construction. The Indian Wars Turn right on Golf Course Rd. and then left if Ellensburg Mox was killed. The Walla Walla & Columbia River Cedar River Valley and from the north via the Snoqualmie e 7 8 beginning in 1855 forced its abandonment. In 1862 the town Railroad, completed in 1875, made it easier to get to River Valley. on Westside Rd. At fork in the road, veer right A of Wallula was built on the site and became an important steamships on the Columbia and facilitated trade and to Mohar Rd. Turn right on Upper Peoh Point r steamboat landing for travelers to the Idaho and Montana settlement in the valley. Iron Horse Trailhead: Iron Horse Trail is the e Rd. At I-90 overpass, the road becomes Thorp gold fields. 3 old right-of-way of the Chicago, Milwaukee, a Whitman Mission National Historic Site explores St. Paul, and Puget Sound Railroad, which opened over Prairie Rd. Turn left on Thorp Cemetery Rd. Byrnes Road: The Inland Empire Highway, built the history of the Whitman Mission and the Snoqualmie Pass in 1909 and was rerouted to a tunnel Turn right at Thorp Hwy S. and follow into 22 in 1915 along old wagon roads, extended from relationship between the Whitmans and the Cayuse C under Snoqualmie Pass in 1915. In the 1920s the Sunset Virden, Kittitas County, to Laurier, Ferry County, via Yakima, tribe. 328 Whitman Mission Rd, 509-522-6360, Ellensburg (it will become W University Way o Highway shifted to the former surface roadbed, which Walla Walla, and Spokane. At Nine Mile Canyon, the highway 9 l www.nps.gov/whmi now carries the eastbound lanes of Interstate 90. The at I-90). u veered south of the old wagon route (today’s Highway 12) to ceased operations through the Cascades 10 m follow the railroad to Touchet for a gentler grade. The Inland Walla Walla: The Walla Walla Valley was in 1980 because most passengers and freight had shifted b Empire Highway bridge remains intact. This detour, at mile- 25 a junction point for a number of Indian to the freeway, which opened in the 1960s. After the i post 314, should be followed from west to east for safety. a trails. Over time, the trails developed into wagon roads

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Exits 47 and 53: Forest Road 58 uses the route of the Wenas Wildlife Area: Accessed via Umpta- of the Cascades. Walla Walla served as the regional r 4 wagon road and the original alignment of the Sunset 9 num Road, the Wenas Wildlife Area covers Leaving the Wenas 11 economic center for several decades, until the Northern Highway. It follows the river up the mountainside, requir- 113,642 acres of the upper Wenas Valley and surrounding Valley, N Wenas Rd. Pacific Railway bypassed the valley in the 1880s in favor ing several switchbacks to negotiate the steep grade. foothills. Several wildlife areas in the region include land that of Spokane. Highway travelers bypassed the old road after the high- was purchased by the state Game Department beginning in becomes Highway 823 Selah way was moved to the abandoned railroad right-of-way. the 1940s to provide more grazing area for Rocky Mountain when it merges with Fort Walla Walla Museum interprets the region’s Subject to seasonal closures. elk and later for California bighorn sheep. The reintroduced Harrison Rd. Follow Yakima history, with special focus on early contact between bighorn sheep replaced wild herds lost as a result of diseases 823 through Selah, settlers and local tribes. 755 Myra Rd, 509-525-7703, : The first wagon trains over the likely spread by domesticated sheep and increased competi- www.fortwallawallamuseum.org 5 wagon road through Snoqualmie Pass in the tion with cattle and sheep herds for forage. In 1997 parts of the name will change 12 1860s cut down trees near the lakeshore, fashioned the Oak Creek and L. T. Murray wildlife areas were combined from N Wenas Rd. to N Hanford Reserve them into rafts, loaded people and wagons aboard, and into a new Wenas Wildlife Area. Subject to seasonal closures. r Wenas Ave. to S Wenas e paddled across the lake while their livestock swam. For- v Wagon route features on Durr Road: The Ave. to Selah Rd. Union Gap 13 i est Road 2219 runs to the approximate area where the R landings were located. (The lake expanded northward Durr Road, built around 1880, offered an 10 before it reaches I-82. e after construction of Keechelus Dam at its outlet in 1917.) alternative to the 28-mile wagon road through the Wenas Follow south I-82 to k Later, wagon roads ran along the eastern side of the Valley and over Umtanum Ridge to the Shushuskin Canyon. a lake, above the shore. Look for the Snoqualmie Tunnel Jacob Durr, who lived in the Kittitas Valley, built a road over Exit 31B - N 1st St. n portal southwest of the freeway interchange. Subject to Umtanum Ridge using switchbacks with turntables (platform- Wapato S seasonal closures. like areas to turn wagons and their horses) at each end to navigate the steep hills. Though his route took 10 miles off Kittitas Reclamation District Main Canal: When the trip, the difficulties it posed and the cost, $25 per year or 17 Driving directions: From Highway 240 East, take 6 construction work for the Main Canal got the $40 for a lifetime pass, prevented it from gaining popularity. Toppenish 14 I-182 west to Exit 3A - Queensgate South. Turn go-ahead in 1925, an Ellensburg newspaper proclaimed Durr’s tollgate was reportedly located at the Umtanum Creek Sunnyside Richland it “the biggest news for Ellensburg in a quarter of a crossing. Requires 4-wheel drive. Likely closed in winter. 18 right onto Queensgate Dr. then left onto Columbia century.” When water began flowing in 1930, it instantly Park Trail. Follow Columbia Park Trail along the turned a huge swath of the Kittitas Valley green. The Owhi’s Gardens: A group of Upper Yakama Indians 16 river and through the park. At W Columbia Dr. canal can be seen from Westside Road, just east of Stone 11 led by Owhi introduced agriculture into the Wenas Toppenish: Yakama Nation Museum tells the story Grandview Ridge Drive. Valley in the 1840s. They acquired seeds from Hudson’s Bay 14 of the Yakama people. 100 Spiel-yi Loop, 509-865- Pasco turn left, then left on S 10th Ave. Cross the bridge Company posts west of the mountains and grew several crops, 2800, www.yakamamuseum.com 15 and turn right at W Ainsworth St. Veer left onto E Thorp Cemetery: The Thorp Cemetery is located 20 including corn and potatoes. Known to settlers as Owhi’s (or Ainsworth St. At Sacajawea Park Rd., turn right 7 on a homestead claimed by Herman Page in Ow-Hi’s) Gardens, the fields planted along Wenas Creek, near American Hop Museum celebrates the region’s role as e Cou 19 1875. Several members of the Page family are buried the historical marker, were irrigated using techniques learned one of the largest hop producers in the world. 22 South Prosser Win ntry to visit the park or left to reach Highway 12. Turn there, as are other members of the community. from Oblate priests at a mission on Ahtanum Creek. The “B” St, 509-865-4677, www.americanhopmuseum.org Kennewick right on Highway 12 to continue east. Yakamas added irrigated farming to their traditional seasonal Ellensburg at Irene Rinehart Riverfront Park: movements through local valleys and mountains. Northern Pacific Railway Museum is located in a 1911 Kennewick at Columbia Park: Incorporated in 1904, 8 At the mouth of Manastash Creek, near the railroad depot. 10 S Asotin Ave, 509-865-1911, 19 Kennewick is located on the south side of the Columbia Lake Wallula Umptanum Road river crossing, the Yakima River split Longmire Homestead: As a child, David Longmire was part of www.nprymuseum.org between the mouths of the Yakima and Snake rivers. The 21 into multiple channels and offered a safe fording area. the famed Longmire-Biles Party whose wagon train reached Columbia posed a significant obstacle to wagon travel. 23 Walla Walla Here several trails were used by Indians, freight wagons, the Wenas Valley in 1853. There they purchased potatoes from Prosser at the Chinook Winery: For three Wagons primarily crossed the river above the mouth of the and stage coaches, including the Colockum Trail to the Owhi. In the 1870s he returned and purchased the land where 15 decades the married team of winemaker Kay Yakima, northwest from Columbia Park, about where the Driving directions: From I-82, take 25 Wenatchee area, the wagon road over Snoqualmie Pass, the fields had been, and he later built a house on North Simon and viticulturist Clay Mackey has produced acclaimed I-182 bridge crossing at Richland is today. After 1894, wagons Exit 96 — West Richland/Benton City. and the wagon road south over Umtanum Ridge. Man- Wenas Road that is still standing. wines from a modest facility based in refurbished farm could cross via August E. “Ed” Timmerman’s cable ferry there. Turn right on Kennedy Rd. Veer left on 22 24 astash Ford, as it was known to settlers, offered the last buildings. Situated near the midpoint of the Yakima Valley, It operated until 1931 when the Inland Empire Highway bridge chance to cross the Yakima before the river entered the Yakima: Yakima Valley Museum highlights the their winery has long been a welcoming stop for tasting-trail (today’s North Gum Street bridge, downstream from the park) East 224 to West Richland/Richland. Veer canyon to the south. In 1915, the Inland Empire Highway 12 land and life of early settlers. 2105 Tieton Dr, tourists. The duo offers an impressive range of wines — and rendered it obsolete. 5111 Columbia Park Trail, 509-585-4293 left on Demoss Rd. Stay right to follow E crossed the river here, too, as it traversed the Kittitas 509-248-0747, http://yakimavalleymuseum.org a shady picnic area out back next to the estate’s vineyard of Ruppert Rd. Turn right on W Van Giesen Valley. Cabernet Franc grapes, the source of their ever-popular rosé. East Benton County Historical Society exhibits include photos 220 W Wittkopf Loop, 509-786-2725, www.chinookwines.com from the Hanford and White Bluffs region from the nine- St./Highway 224 and follow it to 1st St. Kittitas County Historical Museum features an early teenth and early twentieth centuries. 205 Keewaydin Dr, 509- and turn right. automobile collection. 114 E 3rd Ave, 509-925-3778, 582-7704, www.ebchs.org www.kchm.org Canada

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