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Kettle Falls in 1860. Kettle Falls (Salish: Shonitkwu, meaning "roaring or noisy waters", [1] also Schwenetekoo translated as "Keep Sounding Water" [2]) was an ancient and important salmon fishing site on the upper reaches of the Columbia River, in what is today the U.S. state of Washington, near the Canada–US border.
The original Kettle Falls was officially incorporated on December 17, 1891, on the bank of the Columbia. [4] Before it was flooded by the Grand Coulee Dam in 1940, city planners relocated the town at a community called Meyers Falls, near the railroad lines, helping to ensure its success as a trans-shipment point for the logging, agriculture, and paper industries. [5]
The Kettle Falls Historic District encompasses a remote pocket of early-20th-century industrial and commercial activity deep in the Boundary Waters, in what is now Voyageurs National Park in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Kettle Falls is the outlet from Namakan Lake into Rainy Lake on the Canada–United States border.
The mission was built near the HBC's Fort Colville, on the bluff then overlooking Kettle Falls on the Columbia River. Fort Spokane was a U.S. Army frontier outpost in Lincoln County, Washington. Located at the confluence of the Columbia and Spokane rivers, it separated the Colville and Spokane tribes from Spokane. The fort was closed in 1929. [7]
The Kettle River is a 281-kilometre (175 mi) tributary of the Columbia River, encompassing a 10,877-square-kilometre (4,200 sq mi) drainage basin, of which 8,228 square kilometres (3,177 sq mi) are in southern British Columbia, Canada and 2,649 square kilometres (1,023 sq mi) in northeastern Washington, US.
One pioneer recalled that Kettle Falls men would "put large wicker baskets below the falls and raised them up three times a day, always filled with fish." [14] Fort Colvile was the center for construction of Columbia boats, the wooden-planked canoe-like watercraft used to convey freight and passengers on the Columbia River in the fur trade era ...
The Kettle Falls Hotel is a historic hotel in what is now Voyageurs National Park in the U.S. state of Minnesota. [2] It opened in 1913 deep in the wilderness of the Boundary Waters, at the juncture of Namakan and Rainy Lakes. Today it is the only lodging operating inside the park, and remains accessible only by water. [3]
Barney's Junction is located in eastern Ferry County on the west side of the Columbia River. U.S. Route 395 crosses the river at the north end of the CDP, leading east 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to Kettle Falls in Stevens County.