1935 pictorial map of Washington
1935 pictorial map of Washington
‘The creation of several dams on the Columbia definitely changed the way the river looks. Grand Coulee (located incorrectly on the map) is now largely filled with Banks Lake, another reservoir. Everett is much more a Boeing town nowadays, though there still is a lumber mill. Not much salmon canning happening in Bellingham anymore. The area where the strawberries are drawn east of Yakima is part of the Hanford Site, and nobody is growing anything on that very secure DOE land. Also Pasco is shown as a tiny little town. Thanks to the Manhattan Project, that area got a kick start in WW2 and is now the Tri Cities, population 250k. Pasco is not even the largest of the three towns’