White Bluffs Benton County, Washington
Mapped Location
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General information on White Bluffs
- Feature Type: Place
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for White Bluffs
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| White Bluffs | Official |
Origin Notes and History of White Bluffs
References to White Bluffs that document the origin of its place name
WAHLUK, a town on the Columbia River in the southern part of Grant County, has an Indian name. "The name of Wahluke was found here when the white men first came. The present day Indians say it was here always. It seems to mean a watering place. It is just at the beginning of White Bluffs and is the last place where the herds can get down to the water for several miles." (P. C. Koppen, in Names MSS. Letter 110.)
WHITE BLUFFS, a town in the northeastern part of Benton County, was named for the conspicuous bluffs nearby. An old building of logs and driftwood is still standing, in which the Hudson's Bay Company conducted a trading post in the early days. (B. J. O'Larry, in Names MSS. Letter 215.)
Related Catalog Titles
A Bibliography for White Bluffs, Benton County, Washington
Nowhere to remember Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland to 1943 by Robert Bauman (Editor of compilation), Robert Franklin (Editor of compilation)
Euro-American Priest River Valley settlers turned acres of sagebrush into fruit orchards. Although farm life required hard work and modern conveniences were often spare, many former residents remember idyllic, close-knit communities where neighbors helped neighbors. Then, in 1943, families received forced evacuation notices. "Fruit farmers had to leave their crops on their trees. And that was very hard on them, no future, no money...they moved wherever they could get a place to live," Catherine Finley recalled. Some were given just thirty days, and Manhattan Project restrictions meant they could not return. Drawn from Hanford History Project personal narratives, Nowhere to Remember highlights life in Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland--three small agricultural communities in eastern Washington's mid-Columbia region. It covers their late 1800s to early 1900s origins, settlement and development, the arrival of irrigation, dependence on railroads, Great Depression struggles, and finally, their unique experiences in the early years of World War II. David W. Harvey examines the impact of wagon trade, steamships, and railroads, grounding local history within the context of American West history. Robert Franklin details the tight bonds between early residents as they labored to transform scrubland into an agricultural Eden. Laura Arata considers the early twentieth century experiences of women who lived and worked in the region. Robert Bauman utilizes oral histories to tell forced removal stories. Finally, Bauman and Franklin convey displaced occupants' reactions to their lost spaces and places of meaning--and explore ways they sought to honor their heritage.
xvi,196 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
CIRC [ 0 ]
Tales of Richland, White Bluffs & Hanford, 1805-1943, before the atomic reserve by Martha Berry Parker
From back This book, Tales of Richland, White Bluffs and Hanford, tells the story of these three towns before there was an atomic project. They were farming communities, rich in a wide variety of early bearing fruit, and with a long growing season for vegetables, feed grains and alfalfa hay. The author lived in Richland from 1932 to 1941. Her mother's family, the Charles Sawyers, came to the Fruitvale District in 1909. The Sawyers had a 19-acre farm just upriver from where the Graduate Center is at present (1986), north of Richland's Hanford School. Mrs Parker has a deep interest in Northwest history and has written two other books, Kin-i-wak, Kenewick, Tehe, Kennewick, and Washington, Oregon; a Map History of the Oregon Country. She is also an amateur archaeologist and is actively interested in Geology and Genealogy.
407 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
CIRC [ 1 ]
Goodbye, White Bluffs by Mary Powell Harris
Benton County
- Apricot
- Audrey
- Badger
- City of Benton City
- Berrian
- Bettie
- Chaffee
- East White Bluffs
- Edna
- Ethel
- Finley
- Geneva Junction
- Gibbon
- Ginger
- Hanford
- Hedges
- Helen
- Highland
- Horse Heaven
- Island View
- City of Kennewick
- Kinneyville (historical)
- Kiona
- Longview (historical)
- May Junction
- Nancy
- North McNary
- North Prosser
- Paterson
- Pearl
- Pierce
- Plymouth
- Port of Kennewick
- City of Prosser
- City of Richland
- Richland Junction
- Richland Y
- Ruby
- Ruth
- South Highlands
- Susie
- Vista
- Wahluke
- West Highlands
- City of West Richland
- Whitcomb
- White Bluffs
- Whitstran
- Willa
- Yellepit
Political Boundaries
Last updated: 2017-07-01