Columbia Basin Project -- Grand Coulee Dam (Washington) -- 1933-1983; Washington (State) -- Grand Coulee Dam -- History, 1933-1983; Grand Coulee Dam -- Washington (State)
The committee responsible for planning the 50th anniversary observance of completion of Grand Coulee Dam. Left to Right: Dick Ahrens, Spokane Chamber of Commerce; Mr. and Mrs. Wistar Burgess, Columbia Basin Development League; Mrs. Aherens;...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Columbia River; Cascade Falls
The Cascade rapids, sometimes referred to as the Cascade Falls. This is an area of rapids in the Columbia River where travelers by boat along the river were forced to either portage boats and supplies or pull boats up with ropes. Plate XLV.
"The Columbia River at Fort Colville is about three hundred and fifty yards wide just above the Sometknu, or Kettle Falls. These consist of two pitches, one of fifteen feet and another below it of ten, and the river is narrowed to two hundred...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Okanogan (Wash.)
"Fort Okinakane (Okanogan) is an old and ruinous establishment of the Hudson Bay Company." "The character of the Columbia along the western border of the Spokane Plain and as far as Fort Okinakane (Okanogan) is described as follows:...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Columbia River; Channels; Indian encampments; Canoes; Dalles (Or.)
The Dalles is a narrow place in the Columbia River, where the channel has been worn out of the rocks, below which about ten miles, is the mouth of the Klikitat River. Drawing shows an Indian encampment on the bank and a canoe on the water. Plate...
Bridges; Columbia River -- History; Spokane River (Idaho and Wash.)
Highway bridge across the Spokane River east of its confluence with the Columbia. This portion of the road was flooded by the reservoir, requiring relocation of the road.
Structures which were to be inundated by the reservoir were removed before the lake started to fill. The photo appears to show the destruction of one of the piers which supported the Great Northern bridge across the Columbia at Marcus, Washington.