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The Cascade District is an online initiative to make the unique regional history of the Pacific Northwest Coast discoverable and accessible in the digital age.

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Best vibes on the planet. #SeizeTheMoment

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freshet (noun): a great rise or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow

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Keefer's Island, Idaho Falls, Idaho
Named after Fred W. Keefer who filed a mining claim on this island in 1939 and built a 14' x 22' cabin. It sits in the middle of the Snake River.

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Átl’ka7tsem/Howe Sound Marine Reference Guide
A Marine Reference Guide (interactive map) that displays data associated with Átl’ka7tsem’s ocean and watersheds. This will support decision-making, marine spatial planning, and community education by visualizing how human and natural systems interact and overlap. British Columbia.

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CLARKSTON, a town in Asotin County, on the opposite bank of the Snake River from Lewiston, Idaho. It is named in honor of Captain William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1808-1806. It is a fine honor for the two leaders of that great expedition to have their names thus borne by thriving cities connected by an interstate bridge. Clarkston was begun with the name of "Concord," as some of the promoters of the irrigation plans had their homes in Concord, Massachusetts. By petition of the citizens the name was changed to Clarkston on January 1, 1900.
Meany, Edmond S. Origin of Washington Geographic Names. University of Washington Press, 1923.

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BOISE RIVER, Ada County.—Owing to the many whirlpools in this river, the Shoshonis called it the "Wihinast," meaning "boiling rapidly." In 1813, John Reed of the American Fur Company was murdered by the Indians while trapping along this stream, from which incident it was called Reed's River (q.v.). In 1819, Donald Mackenzie started to erect an establishment at the month of this stream, which river he called the Skamnaugh, for a tribe of the Nez Perce Indians of that name which then inhabited it, and it was always so called afterwards by the Hudson Bay Company and trappers. In 1834, some French-Canadian explorers, a part of Captain Bonneville's expedition, pitched camp on the mesa overlooking the site where Boise now stands, and looked down upon the valley thru which rippled a river of surpassing loveliness thru ranks of nodding poplars. They had traveled for many days thru the dust and sage-brush in the heat of summer; they had not seen a tree for hundreds of miles. When they saw the trees along the river they exclaimed, "Les bois, les bois! Voyez les vois!" meaning "The woods, the woods! See the woods!" This river was sometimes called the "wooded stream." The above circumstance occurred during Bonneville's itinerary (q.v.). —FRENCH, History of Idaho.
The county seat is Boise, named for the Boise River.
Rees, John E., Idaho Chronology, Nomenclature, Bibliography, 1918 W.B. Conkey Company, pp. 55-56

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On Saturday, June 5, 1937, over 1,000 Shriners gathered in Tacoma for a Spring reunion sponsored by Tacoma's Afifi Temple. Afifi temple drum major Tom Richards, third from left, posed for a photograph in front of the Winthrop Hotel with "mascot" Marjorie Joy …

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This morning, on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a Canadian Flag that flew over Juno Beach was raised at the Cenotaph.

Thank you to everyone who ensured this anniversary was honoured, including the Canadian Scottish Regiment, Mayor and Council, @OakBayPolice and @OakBayFireDept.

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BESSEMER, a projected town in Skagit County. It was platted by Harrison Clothier in 1890 when the Cokedale mines were opened. It was town in name only.

Meany, Edmond S. Origin of Washington Geographic Names. University of Washington Press, 1923.

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ORTING, Pierce County, Washington
A city eighteen miles southeast of Tacoma. The name is said to mean city on the prairie. (Pierce County Auditor, Annual Report, 1909, p. 54). The townsite plat was filed August 8,1887 by F.E. Eldridge. Orting Lake is northeast of the city on property owned by the Weyerhaeuser Corporation.
Reese, Gary Fuller. Origin of Geographic Names of Tacoma/Pierce County, Washington. 2d ed, Tacoma Public Library, 1974.

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"Columbia in a Squall"
Columbia Rediviva heeling as she approaches a squall. Drawing by George Davidson in 1793, who served as the ship's artist. First US ship to circumnavigate the globe. Namesake of the Columbia River.

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VAUGHN, a bay and town on the east shore of Case Inlet, in the northwestern part of Pierce County, were named for W. D. Vaughn, who crossed the plains in 1851 and took up a homestead on the bay. Illness caused him to lose his rights to the land but his name was given to the bay. (Alfred Van Slyke, of Vaughn, in Names MSS., Letter 577.)

Vaughn, Washington
Vaughn Bay, Washington

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The Namesake of Bonney Lake, Washington

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Mystery solved! - William Bonney, former Secretary of the Washington State Historical Society, Pioneer, and Curator. Also, namesake of Bonney Lake, Washington