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SR 17 on the shores of Lake Lenore, passing through the Grand Coulee on a highway built in the 1930s.. SR 17 was established during the 1964 highway renumbering as the successor to three highways that were designated under the primary and secondary state highway system: SSH 11G from US 395 and PSH 11 in Eltopia to PSH 7 in Soap Lake, a branch of PSH 7 from Soap Lake to US 2 and PSH 2 west of ...
Coulee City was commonly known as McEntee’s Crossing of the Grand Coulee in the 19th century. In 1881, Philip McEntee, after helping a group of surveyors trying to lay down a road, built the first log cabin around Coulee City. Other important pioneers soon followed in the following years. [4] The town was named after nearby Grand Coulee. [5]
Aerial view from the south with Grand Coulee located centrally, Electric City to the left and Coulee Dam to the right. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.29 square miles (3.34 km 2), of which, 1.19 square miles (3.08 km 2) is land and 0.10 square miles (0.26 km 2) is water.
The dam at Grand Coulee would someday be mentioned with the Great Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Wall of China and the Panama Canal as one of humankind's greatest achievements. On June 18, 1934, the ...
Grand Coulee is a large coulee on the Columbia River Plateau.This area has underlying granite bedrock, formed deep in the Earth's crust 40 to 60 million years ago. The land periodically uplifted and subsided over millions of years giving rise to some small mountains and, eventually, an inland sea.
State Route 155 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Washington, running from U.S. Route 2 near Coulee City over Disautel Pass to U.S. Route 97 and State Route 20 in the city of Omak. It is the main north–south route through the area around Grand Coulee Dam .
The Star is a daily newspaper published in Nairobi, Kenya. It was launched in July 2007 as the Nairobi Star and later rebranded as The Star in 2009. The Star' s circulation was around 15,000–20,000 in 2010 (against total Kenyan newspaper circulation in 2010 of around 320,000), compared to 5,000–8,000 in 2007. [ 1 ]
The older spur route is located near the Grand Coulee Dam and connects SR 174 to Crown Point State Park, part of the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area, within the community of Coulee Dam. [1] The highway, named Crown Point Road, [ 16 ] is 1.37 miles (2.20 km) long and was added in 1964. [ 2 ]