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Stemilt's company history dates back to 1893, when the Mathison family homesteaded 160 acres (65 ha) on Stemilt Hill near Wenatchee, Washington. The family planted its first 10 acres (4.0 ha) of apples, pears and cherries in 1914. By 1947, Tom Mathison, a third generation farmer, took the lead in the family orchard business.
By 1947 the Beebe Orchard Company was the state's largest apple growing enterprise operated by a single family. [ 5 ] Although not originally intended for public vehicle crossing, the historic bridge's 12-foot-wide (3.7 m) wooden-deck roadway aided in fruit transport and helped the company recoup the cost of extending the water pipeline by ...
The state has led the U.S. in apple production since the 1920s. [11] Two Eastern Washington areas account for the vast majority of the state's apple crop: the Wenatchee–Okanogan region (comprising Chelan, Okanogan, Douglas, and Grant counties), and the Yakima region (Yakima, Benton and Kittitas counties). [12]
The Columbia River Subdivision or Columbia River Sub is a railway line running about 167 miles (269 km) from Wenatchee to Spokane, Washington. [3] It is operated by BNSF Railway [4] as part of their Northern Transcon. The original line (built in 1893) was built as part of James J. Hill's Great Northern Railway transcontinental railway line.
The Okanogan Steamboat Company was a shipping company that ran steamboats on the Columbia River above Wenatchee, Washington from the late 19th century to 1915. Its steamboats included Pringle, Chelan, and North Star. [1]
List of major tributaries. ... Wenatchee: 85 3,473.1 103.7 Entiat: 92 1,210 20.2 Chelan: ... List of rivers of British Columbia; List of rivers of Idaho;
The East Wenatchee Clovis Site (also called the Richey-Roberts Clovis Site or the Richey Clovis Cache) is a deposit of prehistoric Clovis points and other implements, dating to roughly 11,000 radiocarbon years before present or about 13,000 calendar years before present, found near the city of East Wenatchee, Washington in 1987.
The Richard Odabashian Bridge, formerly the Olds Station Bridge, is a box girder bridge crossing the Columbia River in Wenatchee, Washington, United States.It carries four lanes of U.S. Route 2 (US 2) and US 97, as well as a bicycle and pedestrian pathway that is part of the Apple Capital Recreation Loop Trail.