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Date
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Sunday, March
3, 2002 |
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City
Visited #:
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149 |
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County:
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Lewis |
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City Name
History:
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The
city was founded by George Washington, mulatto son of a Virginia slave and
a white serving girl. Washington settled at the townsite in 1852 and
named it Centerville in 1875. Because of confusion of names with
Centerville in Klickitat County, a public meeting accepted the
recommendation of a former resident of Centralia, Illinois, who suggested
the name of his home town as being reminiscent of - but more distinctive
than - Centerville. |
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