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| 1882 || Platting of Fairweather by William F. Hooker and John W. Still. | | 1882 || Platting of Fairweather by William F. Hooker and John W. Still. | ||
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| 1882 || Joseph | | 1882 || Joseph Lapray buys the toll bridge at "winding ford" from [[James Monoghan]]. He also establishes a saw mill "somewhere in Lincoln county" which will produce lumber for the bridge. This bridge becomes known as the [[Lapray Bridge]]. | ||
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| 1882 || Capps Station was the post office and stage coach station one mile north of Reardan on the stage route between the Spokane House and Camp (Fort) Spokane. John Stanford Capps was the post master. | | 1882 || Capps Station was the post office and stage coach station one mile north of Reardan on the stage route between the Spokane House and Camp (Fort) Spokane. John Stanford Capps was the post master. | ||
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| 1904-1918 || Mule Day celebrated as a community event. | | 1904-1918 || Mule Day celebrated as a community event. | ||
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| 1909 || | | 1909 || Lapray sells his bridge to Spokane and Stevens counties. Stevens county merchants protests equal shares with more populous and wealthier Spokane County, and eventually an unequal deal is made. The bride is now a public bridge without tolls. | ||
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| 1909 || First Reardan high school class is graduated. It has three members. | | 1909 || First Reardan high school class is graduated. It has three members. | ||
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| 1910-1915 || Construction of Long Lake Dam. This was a much larger project and WWP built a railroad from Springdale down Chimakane Creek to cross the Spokane River just below the dam site. Although Reardan was not directly involved with the shipping of materials, it did furnish housing, meals and transportion to the dam site. | | 1910-1915 || Construction of Long Lake Dam. This was a much larger project and WWP built a railroad from Springdale down Chimakane Creek to cross the Spokane River just below the dam site. Although Reardan was not directly involved with the shipping of materials, it did furnish housing, meals and transportion to the dam site. | ||
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| 191x || The rising waters behind Long Lake Dam flood | | 191x || The rising waters behind Long Lake Dam flood Lapray Bridge. WWP purchases the bridge from Spokane and Stevens counties and agrees to build an new one with road access below the dam. This bridge will use the railroad bridge built for constructing Long Lake Dam. WWP is able to sell two of the three spans to the city of Spokane. | ||
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| 1913 || 13 August [[1913 Blaze Destroys Block]] including a barn (livery stable), two saloons, a hotel, a barbershop, a watch repair shop, a restaurant, and V. A. Hard's Undertaking business. This was on the west side of Lake Street between the railroad tracks and Broadway Avenue. | | 1913 || 13 August [[1913 Blaze Destroys Block]] including a barn (livery stable), two saloons, a hotel, a barbershop, a watch repair shop, a restaurant, and V. A. Hard's Undertaking business. This was on the west side of Lake Street between the railroad tracks and Broadway Avenue. |
Revision as of 13:28, 24 August 2023
This timeline has events that are significant to Reardan and vicinity.
[Many of the items are red-linked as a reminder that text needs to be created for a particular event or thing.
Date | Event |
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1804-1906 | Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Expedition passed through the region to the south via the Clearwater, Snake and Columbia rivers. |
1810 | Establishment of Spokane House by North West Company (absorbed by Hudson's Bay Company in 1821.) Site was abandoned in 1825 in favor of Fort Colvile. This was the first European settlement of significance in Washington. |
1811 | Use of Indian trail as Colville-Walla Walla Road (Monument near Hite on US 2) |
1818 | Treaty of 1818 between US and Britain allows dual control of area north of the Columbia River and south of the 49th parallel. |
1835 | Establishment of Whitman mission. |
1836 | Establishment of Nez Perce mission at Lapwai, ID by Henry Spaulding. |
1838 | Establishment of Tshimikane mission at Ford by Cushing Eells and Elkanah Walker. They camped near Sprague a year later. They wrote a Salish language primer which was the first book published in Washington (1842). |
1845 | Establishment of St. Paul's Mission at Kettle Falls by Father DeSmet. |
1846 | Land south of 49th parallel ceded to the US by Oregon Treaty. |
1847 | The Whitmans were killed by Indians blaming them for deaths caused by measles. The mission at Tshimikane was abandoned soon there after for fear of the Indians, although there had never been any problems with the Indians there. |
1848 | Establishment of the Territory of Oregon (including present day Oregon, Washington and Idaho and parts of Montana and Wyoming). |
1850 | Establishment of Mission of the Sacred Heart at Cataldo, ID. Father deSmet came from St. Louis in 1842 and had other failed locations before building this more permanent mission. |
1853 | A portion of the Oregon Territory is granted statehood. Washington Territory is created from the northern portion of the old Oregon Territory. Southern Idaho and a portion of Wyoming are also added to the Washington Territory. |
1863 | Idaho is made a territory and the present boundaries of Washington are established. |
1855-1858 | Yakima Indian War lead by Chief Kamiakin in Battle of Pine Creek, Battle of Four Lakes and culminating in the Battle of Spokane Plains (near Fairchild AFB). He united the tribes in the Pacific Northwest against the whites and had a fairly successful campaign, but was ultimately defeated by the endless supply of soldiers for the US army. |
1858 | Creation of Spokane County (including Lincoln and Douglas counties). It was annexed by Stephens county in 1864 and recreated in 1879. |
1858 | Creation of the White Bluffs Road which ran from White Bluffs on the Columbia River near Hanford to Lake Pend Orielle to open an all weather route from the Pacific to Montana. This trail ran east-west just north of Reardan. |
1858 | Creation of the Colville Military Road which ran from Walla Walla to Fort Colville USA (as opposed to Fort Colville, the Hudson Bay Company outpost nearby). This trail was the same as the White Bluffs Road in the vicinity of Reardan. |
1853 | Establishment of Camp Washington at Four Mound by new territorial governor Isaac Stephens. Some like to call this the first capitol of Washington State. |
1860 | James Monoghan establishes a post and ferry service on the Colville Military Road at "winding springs" about two miles upstream from the present day Long Lake Dam. |
1865 | James Monoghan and William Nix get Territorial approval to build a bride to replace the ferry at "winding ford." |
1869 | Russell M. Bacon starts raising cattle on Crab Creek and establishes first post office in Lincoln county in 1873. |
1871-1872 | Government surveyed the county which opened the area for homesteading. One of the Chief Surveyors was future Territorial and first state Governor Ferry. |
1878 | Arrival of first farmers, Henry Harder [age 37] and John Wickham [age 53] near Reardan. |
1880 | Establishment of Camp Spokane (now Fort Spokane). Fort was used for policing until 1890. In 1899 the post became a Indian boarding school until 1914 when it became a tuberculosis sanitorium. It closed in 1929. |
1882 | Platting of Fairweather by William F. Hooker and John W. Still. |
1882 | Joseph Lapray buys the toll bridge at "winding ford" from James Monoghan. He also establishes a saw mill "somewhere in Lincoln county" which will produce lumber for the bridge. This bridge becomes known as the Lapray Bridge. |
1882 | Capps Station was the post office and stage coach station one mile north of Reardan on the stage route between the Spokane House and Camp (Fort) Spokane. John Stanford Capps was the post master. |
1883 | Creation of Lincoln and Douglas counties. |
1883 | Completion of Northern Pacific railroad. |
1885 | Arrival of Charles Buckman and Luke Ensor. |
Decline of the town of Fairweather. | |
1988 | Completion of the Central Washington Railway through Reardan. Railroad station built in center of Lake Street. |
1899 | Post Office moved from Capps Station to just south of railroad station. W. H. McCoy was the postmaster and local druggist. |
1889 | Platting of Reardan by __ and __. The town is named after Charles Fairbanks Reardan, chief construction engineer for this section of the Northern Pacific Railroad. |
1889 | Washington is granted statehood as the 42nd state. Flag of six rows of seven stars lasted about eight months until Idaho became a state. |
1889 | Crop failed in hot dry summer and half of livestock die off in a cold hard winter. Nearly half of the land in the county was abandoned and seized by the Lincoln county sheriff for back taxes. |
1889 | Washington Grain and Milling company erected an elevator and later a flour mill. |
1899 | Opening of Fort George Wright near present day Spokane Falls Community College. |
1902 | Reardan has electricity provided by a local generator powered by a wood fired boiler and steam engine. |
1903 | Incorporation of Reardan. |
1904-1918 | Mule Day celebrated as a community event. |
1909 | Lapray sells his bridge to Spokane and Stevens counties. Stevens county merchants protests equal shares with more populous and wealthier Spokane County, and eventually an unequal deal is made. The bride is now a public bridge without tolls. |
1909 | First Reardan high school class is graduated. It has three members. |
1908-1910 | Construction of Little Falls Dam by the Washington Water Power Company (WWP). Nearly all materials for the dam passed through Reardan and were transhipped from rail to horse-drawn or tractor-drawn wagons. |
1910-1915 | Construction of Long Lake Dam. This was a much larger project and WWP built a railroad from Springdale down Chimakane Creek to cross the Spokane River just below the dam site. Although Reardan was not directly involved with the shipping of materials, it did furnish housing, meals and transportion to the dam site. |
191x | The rising waters behind Long Lake Dam flood Lapray Bridge. WWP purchases the bridge from Spokane and Stevens counties and agrees to build an new one with road access below the dam. This bridge will use the railroad bridge built for constructing Long Lake Dam. WWP is able to sell two of the three spans to the city of Spokane. |
1913 | 13 August 1913 Blaze Destroys Block including a barn (livery stable), two saloons, a hotel, a barbershop, a watch repair shop, a restaurant, and V. A. Hard's Undertaking business. This was on the west side of Lake Street between the railroad tracks and Broadway Avenue. |
1917-1918 | World War I Several area boys go to serve in the war. |
1923 | Harl Aldrich and family move to Reardan and he become Superintendent of Schools. He starts a girls basketball team and a football team. |
1926 | 3 August. An arson caused fire burned the Bowie building (containing Hanel's drug store and the Sherman S. Bentley general store), Finrow's general store, the Re=rdan Gazette, and the Inland Hotel. The Reardan Farmers' State bank next door was spared. (Part of it is still standing as Reardan Fire Station.) |
1930s | Great Depression |
1941-1945 | World War II |
1945-1973 | Community Day was celebrated initially to raise money for the Red Cross and then the Reardan Memorial Clinic (now Reardan Memorial Library). |
Jan. 1952 | The Washington Grain and Milling Company grain elevator and mill burned to the ground |
1952 | The Reardan Grain Growers built the first two concrete grain elevators. The other four would follow in 1954.]] |
1952 | Beginning of first wave of the Green Revolution. Within Washington state this was promoted by WSU professor Orville Vogel and his strain of Gains wheat tripled the yield for fertilized wheat in the early 1960s. Since then the yield of wheat had doubled again. |
1959 | Burning of the original Ranch House restaurant |
1959-1962 | Beautification for Seattle World's Fair or Century 21 Exposition. |
1960 | Revitalizing of the town library. |
1966 | Moving of the town library to the Reardan Memorial Library |
1970s | Changing of Community Day to Mule Days |
1980s | Father Aloysius Breznik |
1990s | |
2000s | |
2010s | |
2020s |