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The Little Spokane River is a major tributary of the Spokane River, approximately 35 miles (56 km) long, in eastern Washington in the United States. It drains a rural area of forested foothills and a farming valley north of the city of Spokane along the Idaho –Washington border. It has two branches, one starting west of Newport and the other ...
South of Spokane, the Winona Fire in Whitman County had burned at least 7.8 square miles (20.2 square kilometers) of grass and brush and prompted evacuations orders for Winona, a tiny hamlet of ...
PotlatchDeltic Corporation. PotlatchDeltic Corporation[ 2] (originally Potlatch Corp) is an American diversified forest products company based in Spokane, Washington . It manufactures and sells lumber, panels and particleboard and receives revenue from other assets such as mineral rights and the leasing of land as well as the sale of land ...
Spokane hosted the first environmentally themed World's Fair in Expo '74, becoming the then-smallest city to ever host a World's Fair. With falling silver, timber, and farm prices, the city economy began a decline that would last into the 1990s. Spokane is still trying to make the transition to a more service-oriented economy.
The Spokane Flour Mill, commonly known as the Flour Mill among locals, [ 2] is a historic building in Downtown, Spokane, Washington located adjacent to the Spokane Falls on the river's north bank. The building was constructed in 1895 and designed by the Edward P. Allis company. The Flour Mill served as a flour mill from 1900 until 1972; it was ...
September 5, 1975. [ 2 ] The Davenport Hotel is a hotel located in Spokane, Washington. Originally a successful high-end restaurant, it is one of the possible places where the first Crab Louis (reportedly named after Louis Davenport) was created and served. The hotel was designed by architect Kirtland Cutter, and built in 1914 for $2 million ...
Spokane became a noted leader in the manufacture of doors, window sashes, blinds, and other planing mill products. [19] The city also became noted for processing and distributing dairy and orchard products and for producing products milled from timber. By the early 20th century Spokane was primarily a commercial center rather than an industrial ...
As of Friday, the Quaker Run fire, fueled by timber and brush, was considered only 40% contained. Over 70 incident personnel were working the fire, according to details in the Hazard Mapping ...