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First Steamboat Built in Stevens County 1865
The 1865 steamboat Forty-Nine, built by Captain Lewis White, operated on the Upper Columbia river beginning at Kettle Falls with Christina McDonald and Mary L. Brown driving the first nail. The county seat history runs from Pinkney City Fort Colville to Colville, and Spokane Falls failed to supplant Colville after a 1876 legislative note. The piece recounts Steptoe’s 1858 military action, local mining deals in Ferry and Stevens counties, wheat market notes, and a forthcoming Stevens County fair with planned upgrades.
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Stevens County
Columbia River
Lewis White
Pinkney City
Fort Colville
Spokane Falls
Colville
Board of
Whitman
Spokane
Kittitas and
Lincoln
Adams
Franklin
Douglas
Okanogan
Ferry and
Chelan
Stevens
Idaho
Montana
Steptoe
I. S. Stevens
U. S
Walla Walla
Colville Valley
Nez Perce
Snake River
Mike Kenny
Seargent
1St Dragoons
Randolph
Seargent Ball
Ball
Lapwai
Cache Creek
Potlatch Creek
Thomas L. Greenough
Wilbur D. Greenough and
Dayton H. Stewart
Laurier
Ferry County
International Boundary Line
Washington and Great Northern Railroad
Marcus
Grand Forks
Republic
Greenoughs
Wilbur D. Greenough
William Roberts
Granby