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In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the first proclamation for farm safety due to the high injury rate in agriculture. Agriculture is one of the most hazardous industries with a death rate of 23.2 deaths per 100,000 workers annually according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2013. [1]
Chelan (/ ʃ ə ˈ l æ n / shə-LAN) is a city in Chelan County, Washington, United States. The estimated population was 4,222 at the 2020 census. [5] It lies on the southeast tip of Lake Chelan, where the lake flows into the Chelan River. Chelan is part of the Wenatchee−East Wenatchee Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Wenatchee (/ w ɛ ˈ n æ tʃ iː / weh-NATCH-ee) is the county seat and most populous city of Chelan County, Washington, United States. [6] The population within the city limits in 2010 was 31,925, [7] and has increased to 35,508 as of 2020. [8]
The 1923 legislature established a numbering system for state highways, designating the North Central Highway as State Road 7 and Chelan and Okanogan Highway as State Road 10. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The Wenatchee–Quincy highway was fully completed in 1926, using $200,000 in state appropriations (equivalent to $2.76 million in 2023 dollars) [ 26 ] and ...
Chelan County (/ ʃ ə ˈ l æ n /, shə-LAN) is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census , its population was 79,074. [ 1 ] The county seat and largest city is Wenatchee . [ 2 ]
The Chelan cherry tree grows in USDA Zone 5, [3] and is self-incompatible. [4] It is a vigorous and early-bearing tree; with the fruit ripening about 10-12 days earlier than Bing cherries, [1] it is the earliest of the sweet cherries grown in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. [5]
Holden Village is located in the Cascade Range in Washington, in the Wenatchee National Forest. [3] [4] [5] Inaccessible by car, visitors (volunteers, guests, and through-hikers) generally take a ferry up Lake Chelan from Chelan or Fields Point Landing to Lucerne where they board a Village bus which takes them up an 11-mile (18 km) gravel road through a set of 12 switchbacks, and into Holden ...
State Route 150 (SR 150) is a 11.76-mile (18.93 km) long state highway serving Chelan County in the U.S. state of Washington. The highway begins in the unincorporated community of Manson and travels southeast along the north shore of Lake Chelan into Chelan , where it is briefly concurrent with U.S. Route 97 Alternate (US 97 Alternate).