Photograph shows men and boys in period dress posed with wagons, carts, and horses in front of numerous buildings on First Street in Cheney, Washington. Many of the buildings have the false fronts common to the period. Included in the buildings is...
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction;Railroads -- Design and construction.
The official opening of the contractor’s railroad was on July 29, 1935. Much of the work had been completed several months earlier. Governor Clarence D. Martin was the official engineer for the first official trip.