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Cathlamet in 1973 (Main Street from Columbia Street) Cathlamet was the largest, or one of the largest, villages of Columbia River Native Americans west of the Cascade Mountains, and the home of the Kathlamet people. [5] "Cathlamet was sighted in 1792 by Lt. W.R. Broughton, while verifying Capt. Robert Gray's reported exploration of the Columbia ...
East Cathlamet is a census-designated place (CDP) in Wahkiakum County, Washington, on the eastern border of the town of Cathlamet. The population was 578 as of the 2020 census . The East Cathlamet community is part of the Wahkiakum School District , a K-12 school district of about 430 students.
The Julia Butler Hansen Bridge (built in 1938) carries State Route 409 across the Cathlamet Channel to connect the island to the town of Cathlamet, Washington. Route 409 crosses the island to its southern shore, where it connects with the county-operated Wahkiakum County Ferry, Oscar B, providing service to Westport, Oregon.
Wahkiakum County, with Cathlamet as the county seat, was created by the First Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Washington in 1854. [ 5 ] : 126 Early settlers came from Great Britain and the eastern United States until around 1870, when they were followed by a large number of immigrants from Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Dalmatia .
Location of Wahkiakum County in Washington. This list presents the full set of buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts designated on the National Register of Historic Places in Wahkiakum County, Washington, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them.
Lewis and Clark reported "that about 300 Cathlamet occupied nine plank houses on the south side of the Columbia River", [4] and lived between Tongue Point and Puget Island in Clatsop County, Oregon. [5] On the north side, they lived "from the mouth of Grays Bay to a little east of Oak Point." [3] Clark wrote: November 11th Monday 1805
In 1939, the year the Julia Butler Hansen Bridge opened, [14] ferry service ceased on the Puget Island – Cathlamet run. [11] The Julia Butler Hansen Bridge, which currently carries the route of SR 409, which will be designated in 1964, [15] [16] from Puget Island to Cathlamet, opened in August 1939.
English: Looking north on Main Street (State Route 409) in the city center of Cathlamet, the county seat of, and largest settlement, in Wahkiakum County, Washington. Date 23 June 2021, 16:18:28