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The dam replaced a wood crib dam started in 1903 by J.M. Hagerty, a local entrepreneur, and completed a year after his death. The dam fed a generating plant in a wooden powerplant below the dam and falls. Power went to the towns of Nighthawk and Oroville, as well as the nearby Owasco, Ivanhoe, Ruby and Canba mines. Attempts by Hagerty's estate ...
Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Washington is home to approximately 1,500, [3] and 17 of those are found in Okanogan County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted February 7, 2025.
Okanogan Complex Okanogan August 15 133,450 Newby Lake Fire [35] Okanogan July 4 5,065 [n 2] North Star Fire [36] Ferry / Okanogan 218,138 Okanogan Complex [34] Okanogan Complex: Okanogan August 15 304,782 [37] 195 [25] 3 Included the Lime Belt, Tunk Block, Twisp River and Nine Mile Fires. The Lime Belt Fire originated as three separate fires ...
Frank (Sakae) Matsura (1873-1913) Source: Okanogan County Historical Society. Frank (Sakae) Matsura (1873–1913) was an early 20th-century Japanese photographer who travelled from Japan to America in 1901 where he lived until his early death. [1]
Okanogan County (/ ˌ oʊ k ə ˈ n ɑː ɡ ən /) [1] is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington along the Canada–U.S. border. As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,104. [2] The county seat is Okanogan, [3] while the most populous city is Omak. Its area is the largest in the state. [4]
Tonasket was officially incorporated on December 16, 1927. It is named after Chief Tonasket of the Okanogan people, [4] a local leader from this area who assumed the status of grand chief of the American Okanogan after the drawing of the Canada–United States border by the Oregon Treaty of 1846, assuming a leadership role in Okanogan territory formerly held by Chief Nicola who lived north of ...
The Bodie Mine is an inactive, privately owned gold mine in Okanogan County, Washington, United States. It is located within a triangle formed by the town of Wauconda, Washington the original town of Bodie, Washington , and the later ghost town of Bodie, on Toroda Road.
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Okanogan County, Washington" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .