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Date
Visited:
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Saturday, May
28, 2005 |
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City
Visited #:
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464 |
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County:
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Spokane |
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Visited
With:
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Michelle &
Tacoma Jenn |
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City Name
History:
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The
community was first settled in 1870 as Alpha, but the name was changed
in 1875 to coincide with that of nearby Latah Creek. The stream
was originally called Hangman Creek because in 1858 Col. George Wright
killed nearly 800 horses and hanged several Native-Americans along its
banks in retaliation for the Palouse warriors' defeat of Lt. Col. Edward
J. Steptoe. The gruesome name was changed by the legislature to
Latah Creek, an adaptation of the Native-American name Lahtoo that
described the "stream where little fish are caught." |
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