Asotin, Washington

Nez Perce called the creek that flows into the Snake River near present-day Asotin, Washington, H'esutine, or "eel creek." This was the winter camp of Looking Glass' nontreaty band. Asotin, Washington is six miles south of Clarkston, Washington. Riverboat trips ...

Booker T. Washington Sculpture

Booker T. Washington is Hampton University’s most famous alumnae. Born a slave in Franklin County, Virginia, Washington became a world renowned educator and school founder. After the Civil War, he and family moved to Malden, Virginia where they secured employment ...

General George Washington during the Siege of Boston

George Washington (1732-1799), the first President of the United States, was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. General Washington had never led an army before and even recognized he had little experience leading larger groups of soldiers. The majority ...

George Washington Lamb and Maria Bailey

Cabinetmaker

Maria Bailey and her sister Harriet were amongst the first students to attend the American School for the Deaf when it opened in 1817.  Even though they were already adults, at 20 and 18 years old respectively, they left ...

Washington Monument National Memorial

The nation’s best-known memorial to the first president of the United States is located in the city that bears his name.  At 555 feet, 5 1/8 inches tall, the Washington Monument National Memorial towers over the nation’s capital.  George ...

George Washington Memorial Parkway

Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, the first section of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, opened in 1932, the bicentennial of the birth of the man who shaped the nation as peerless leader in the War for Independence, chairman of the ...

George Washington Birthplace National Monument

By the time of George Washington’s birth in 1732 on the marshy shores of Popes Creek, his family had been on the land between Mattox and Popes Creek for three quarters of a century. The George Washington Birthplace National ...

Ione, Washington

While other parts of Pend Oreille County were settled in the 1880s, the area that became the town of Ione remained untouched by non-Indians until well into the 1890s. Two settlers, James Morrison and Elmer Hall, acquired land under the ...

Newport, Washington

In the late 1880s, a small community began to develop at today’s Oldtown, Idaho, and became known as the “New Port” on the river. Over the next few years, settlers built homesteads and businesses in the area of present-day Newport, ...

Usk, Washington

The small northeastern Washington community of Usk is located in the heart of the Calispell Valley, the homeland of the Kalispel Indians. George H. Jones, the area’s first non-Indian settler, obtained a homestead patent in 1895 and founded the town ...