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10 maps on 1 sheet ; each 29 x 25 cm. or smaller., sheet 54 x 72Depths shown by soundingsContents: Tacoma, Washington -- Port Gamble -- Port Townsend -- Bellingham Bay -- Possession Sound -- Eagle Harbour [Eagle Harbor] -- Cape Flattery to Puget…

1 map: col., 46 x 40 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Farmington.Scale 400'=1"In 1886, the Oregon and Washington Railway & Navigation Co. built track running from Portland into eastern Washington. The track ended at Farmington, named…

1 map: col., 39 x 27 cm.Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Colton, Staley and Diamond. Colton scale 400'=1" Staley scale 400'=1"Diamond scale 400'=1"The town of Colton, eleven miles south of Pullman, began as a settlement in 1879. Mr.…

1 map: col., 35 x 14 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County cities of Palouse (Boone Park addition) and Willada or Lancaster. Scale: 400'=1" for Boone Park Addition and 300'=1" for Willada.In 1888-89, the Oregon Railway Extension Co. (which later became…

1 map: col., 23 x 34 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County city of Palouse. Scale: 400'=1"The word Palouse stems from the name of native tribes in the area that were perhaps known as the Palus, Palost, Pallah, or Palusha people. When French trappers…

1 map: col., 40 x 36 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County city of Tekoa. Scale: 400'=1". Tekoa's first settler, Mr. Frank P. Connell, erected a post office at his trading post in 1888. That same year, Mr. Daniel Traux platted forty acres…

1 map: col., 17 x 20 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County city of Texas City Scale: 400'=1".At one time the small community of Texas City was also known as Texas Ferry. Located on the Snake River, you can perhaps derive the town's economic interests…

1 map: col., 69 x 36 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County city of Colfax. Scale: 400'=1".The farming town of Colfax (located thirteen miles northwest of Pullman) was named in 1872 in honor of President Grant's Vice President, Mr. Schuyler Colfax, by…

1 map: col., 38 x 26 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County cities of Rock Lake City and Lamont. Scale: 400'=1".The settlement at Rock Lake was platted on its southwest side in 1903 by Willis Anson Evans. Evans bought three acres of land, and in three…

1 map: col., 27 x 36 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County city of Penawawa. Scale: 600'=1".Named after a nearby creek at Union Flat, the town of Penawawa lay twelve miles west of Almota. Its first permanent settler, Mr. Ed Johnson, arrived in 1871…

1 map: col., 9 x 12 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County town of Pampa. T 15, N.R. 39E, Scale 400'=1". The Columbia and Palouse Railroad Company's line ran through the Pampa siding in 1883. The town grew large enough for a post office just one year…

1 map: col., 36 x 33 cm.Plat map of a portion of the Whitman County city of Pullman. Scale 1.5"=1 mile. See the other part of Pullman: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu169 The village of Pullman…

1 map: col., 36 x 34 cm.Plat map of a portion of the Whitman County city of Pullman. Scale 1.5"=1 mile. See the other part of Pullman: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu170 Some speculation has arisen over the longstanding story…

1 map : col., 27 x 13 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Johnson. Scale: 400'=1". Johnson was named for Jonathon Johnson, who purchased the townsite and platted it in 1877.

1 map : col., 30 x 18 cm. Originally known as Guy, the name of the town was changed to Albion in 1901. A British settler persuaded the town to make the name change after an early name for the region: New Albion. …

1 map: col., 41 x 31 cm.Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Belmont, Hay, and Pine City, Washington. Belmont scale 600'=1" Hay scale 400'=1"Pine City scale 400'=1"A past director of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Mr. August Belmont, was given…

1 map: col., 40 x 36 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County city of Garfield Washington. Scale 400'=1" Located eighteen miles northeast of Colfax, the town of Garfield was platted by landowner Samuel J. Tant in 1881. The plat was filed and the town…

1 map: col., 41 x 34 cm.Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Endicott, Almota, Revere, Pandora, and Palisades. Endicott and Almota scale 400'=1"Revere, Pandora, and Palisades scale 800'=1"Of the five platted towns, only Endicott and Almota…

1 map: col, 43 x 30 cm.Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Hooper, Chambers and La Crosse scale 400'=1"Chambers has been described as an "odd-shaped town", consisting of one to five block streets. The shortest street, Granite, ran along…

1 map: col., 40 x 32 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Farmington.Scale 400'=1"Located between Union Flat, the earliest settlement founded in Whitman County (1869), and Cow Creek (1879), Union Town was named by Jesuit missionary Fr. Joseph…

1 map: col., 42 x 34 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Steptoe.Scale 400'=1"The area now known as the town of Steptoe was called Steptoe Station at first. This is because the town began as a siding, or flag stop, for the railroad. Records…

1 map: col., 44 x 30 cm.Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of St. John, and Winona scale 400'=1"At Pleasant Valley Creek, eighteen miles northwest of Colfax, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. platted and filed the town in 1888. The…

1 map: col., 44 x 35 cm. Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Thornton and Elberton.Scale 400'=1"Elberton, named after Elbert, the deceased son of plat filer Sylvester M. Wait in 1886, began as the site of a mill. Located 12 miles northeast…

1 map: col., 46 x 40 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Malden.Scale 400'=1"Located twenty miles north of Colfax, the town of Malden, Washington was named by the then Vice President of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway--Mr. H. R.…

1 map : col., 37 x 72 cm.Scale 200 ft. = 1 in. Bremerton is named after George Bremer, a German immigrant who originally platted the town. Bremer sold the navy land for a naval yard that same year, and Bremerton has been host to the Puget Sound…

1 map : hand col. ; 70 x 69 cmRelief shown by hachuresIncludes ill. and textInset: [Map of the Northwest showing Spokane's location and railroad connections]One of library's copies indicates depot and Occident addition in pencil; one copy mounted on…

1 map : col. ; 46 x 42 cm.Relief shown by contoursContour interval 500 feetShows eight classes of timber density and burned areas"Julius Bien & Co. Lith. N.Y."Scale ca. 1:380,000 (W 122°00--W 120°00/N 49°00-N 47°30)

1 map: hand col., 79 x 119 cm."Scale, 24 Statute Miles to an Inch"Longitude west from Washington at bottom. Longitude west from Greenwich at top.

1 map : col. ; 46 x 84 cmShows railroads, proposed railways, school houses, churches, county roads, springs, and school district boundaries and numbersIncludes ill.: Combined harvester at work in Adams CountyScale 1:126,720. One-half inch to the mile

1 map : hand col. ; 44 x 37 cm.Scale ca. 1:7,000,000. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Inset: San Francisco and environs. A hand colored map including the Oregon Territory --comprising the area that would…