SEATTLE WALLA WALLA 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 Yakima River 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 Columbia River steamers. functioned as a school until 1974. The name (“L’Ecole” 2 North Bend soldiers and Oregon and Washington 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 Sacajawea State Park: 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 Snoqualmie Pass 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 Hanford site. 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 Hanford Reach 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, Palouse, 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 Milwaukee Road ceased operations through the Cascades 10 m follow the railroad to Touchet for a gentler grade.