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Download History History Highlights of the Port of Kennewick Prepared for Prepared by Port of Kennewick Anchor QEA, LLC 350 Clover Island Drive, Suite 200 8033 W. Grandridge Blvd., Suite A Kennewick, Washington 99336 Kennewick, Washington 99336 March 2015 Port Created March 6, 1915 Creation of the Port of Kennewick was initiated by the Kennewick Commercial Club, which wanted to capitalize on the Celilo Falls navigation canal (Celilo Canal) opening in May of 1915. The Port creation had strong community support, with 282 out of 379 voters (75 percent) supporting the Port’s creation. The opening of the canal allowed river traffic from Portland through the Cascade Canal and Locks and from the Celilo Canal to the upper Columbia and Snake rivers. A grand banquet was held in Kennewick for visiting dignitaries to celebrate the canal opening and the new opportunities it represented for the region. Ferry Boats Near the Towns of White Bluffs and Hanford “It is not only opportune, but absolutely imperative that Kennewick should be awake and doing her share of this toiling, hoping, progressing. The first step to take is the creation of a port district.” Kennewick Courier-Reporter Editorial, March 1915 1 Celebration of Celilo Falls Canal opening in Kennewick The Port of Kennewick improvements to the Ivy Street waterfront to handle record- immediately began to operate Terminal, a suggested concept setting cargo volumes. In 1917, docks, approach and landing to close off the upstream end the Port purchased the previously facilities, leasing these facilities of the channel between the leased land and assets from from the Kennewick Improvement shoreline and Clover Island, and the Kennewick Improvement Corporation (a private entity that dredging to create a boat basin. Corporation for $1,200. The had organized in 1909 to develop The comprehensive scheme was following year, steamboat the facilities) for $1 per year. By approved by a small majority (118 activities came to a halt due to rail the summer of 1915, shipments of to 97), with some controversy competition and barges, which cargo and passengers were leaving regarding whether the public or began replacing the less efficient from and arriving at private sector should be paying for steamboats. Kennewick’s docks. proposed improvements. The drop in steamboat traffic and In 1916, the Port held a public The Port’s budget was $2,000 in rises in rail and motor vehicle hearing and adopted its first 1916 and $1,800 in 1917. During traffic spurred the Port to refocus Comprehensive Scheme document, this time, the Port constructed its activities. For the next several which needed voter approval before the Ivy Street Terminal for years, the Port concentrated on any funding could be expended. handling cargo and passengers, building rail- and water-transfer Included in the Comprehensive and also authorized the building facilities and warehouses. Scheme were modest proposed of a new warehouse next to the 2 Docking and Loading Facilities for Boats and Barges In the early 1900s, the Port of Kennewick provided docking and terminal facilities for steamboats, as a direct result of the opening of Celilo Falls navigation canal. The Inland Empire was one of the boats that traveled to Kennewick, where it served as a local ferry for several years, moving goods and people in and around the area from the Port’s docking and terminal facilities. A significant flood occurred in 1926 that severely damaged the Port dock facility in 1922, just downstream of Clover Island Port’s dock and loading facilities, causing a period of Port inactivity until the 1940s. In the early 1940s, World War II stimulated docking and loading activities in the Port. In 1941, the Port acquired a portion of Clover Island and leased property to Columbia Marine Shipyards for a barge-building site on the Port of Kennewick Facilities circa 1920 island. This barge-building site complemented the Port- constructed bulk grain conveyor and elevator, and a dock extending more than 390 out into the Columbia River from the mainland just downstream of Clover Island. Ivy Street Terminal (Port of Kennewick 1941) 3 The Winquatt tugboat and Port of Kennewick barge were constructed on Clover Island on Port-leased land Two 175-foot barges were built damage to Port barge and boat in Finley to serve the chemical and launched at Kennewick in the loading facilities, and this ended manufacturing businesses 1940s, and one was christened the the Port’s involvement in these beginning to locate in that Port of Kennewick. In 1944, the type of facilities in the vicinity of area. In 1967, the Port sold the Winquatt, once known as the most Clover Island. Hedges land and presumably the powerful tugboat in the world, was associated water facilities to the also built at Clover Island. After the Port District boundary Collier Carbon Chemical or other expanded in 1954, the Port industrial businesses in the area, Another large flood occurred constructed a dock and waterway ending the Ports involvement in in 1948 that caused significant at the Hedges Industrial Area dock and barge loading facilities. Port Commissioners, A.I. Smith, George R. Turner, and Harry A. Linn attend a barge launch 4 Historical and Current Port District Boundaries The Port of Kennewick District Glade NorthGlade R 240 boundary originally extended Horn Rd WA-240 south from the Columbia River 225 US-395 S US-395 N US-395 S US-395 y w Way Washington George H s s at the middle of the present-day a P 224 y N 4th Ave B I-182 E I-182 W US-12 E WA-224 US-12 W Columbia Park Golf Course, Pasco-Kahlotus 82 US-12 W US-12 E 12 Keene Rd 12 to the intersection of US 12 395 395/10th Avenue, and then due Ice Harbor Dr W Clearwater Ave 2 3 Leslie Rd Leslie 2 3 Lewis and Clark Trail Hwy E Badger Rd 1 W 10th Ave 82 397 east along 10th Avenue to the I-82 E I-82 W E Chemical Dr Columbia River. In 1954, after Lewis Trailand ClarkHwy St Olympia S seven years of construction, the WA-397 12 McNary Dam was finished, which S Clodfelter Rd provided flood control along the Columbia River and improved S Plymouth Rd navigation to the Tri-Cities area. Current Port The dam created new opportunities Properties S US-395 N US-395 Current Port 395 for the Port of Kennewick, 730 Boundaries 82 with improved navigation and 1915 Boundaries more river-accessible land in the 14 City of Kennewick and Benton WA-14 US-730 OR-37 Columbia River Hwy County. These opportunities 730 led to an expansion of the Port Port of Kennewick current boundaries District, additional Clover Island development, and heavy industrial industry, recreation, and habitat, In November 1954, 75 percent development in the Finley and and industrial land was made of voters approved the expansion Hover areas of east Benton available to public agencies. This of the Kennewick Port District to County. Property acquired by the additional industrial land was made include an area constituting 485 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers available to the Port, which led to a square miles and comprising the and associated with McNary Dam proposal to expand the eastern half of Benton County. construction was designated for Port District. 5 Port Supports the Navy During World War II and Later Invests in Rail in Downtown Kennewick In 1942, representatives of the United States Navy called on the Port of Kennewick Commission to support the war effort by relinquishing to the Navy supplies of railroad steel and ties the Port had on hand for completion of a railroad spur track to Port facilities. The Port Commission felt duty-bound and obliged the Navy’s request. Rail was a primary means of moving The Port had plans to develop Rail development plans were products to and from the Port of additional rail spurs in the placed on hold until after the war, Kennewick and other industrial industrial areas of downtown and the Port made substantial properties in Kennewick during the Kennewick, but in 1942, the Port, rail investments in downtown 1940s. In 1941, Kennewick was in response to a request from the Kennewick during served by three transcontinental Navy, supported the war effort by the 1950s. railroads and originated thousands donating steel and railroad ties. of railcars filled with frozen foods, canned goods, dressed poultry, asparagus, grape juice, cherries, and other commodities. 6 Present-day Two Rivers Park was once identified as a Port industrial site for barge-loading facilities. Schematic from 1955 Comprehensive Scheme for Development Plan illustrating Camp Two Rivers (present-day Benton County Two Rivers Park) 7 1950s and 1960s Industrial Development (Chemical Row) The Port acquired several industrial the area’s largest private industrial 1953 to 1968 properties during the 1950s and development at the time. Chemical Row Finley Area 1960s in the Finley area. In 1956, after McNary Dam was The Chemical Row area was known Allied Chemical 1953 (now Abandoned) constructed, the Port leased for its central location, ample 314 acres of Columbia River transportation, low-cost power, 1957 Kerley Chemical waterfront land for development and plentiful water. Total private Phillips Pacific Chemical from the U.S. Army Corps of investment in the Finley area from 1957 (now Agrium) Engineers. Between 1953 and 1952 to 1964 exceeded $23 million 1968, seven major firms established and resulted in approximately 1958 Gas Ice (now Air Liquide) industrial operations in Finley, 250 new jobs. Most of these Cal-Spray Chemical and the area became known as plants are still in operation today.
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