Riverfront Park
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This picture was taken on the hill overlooking the clock tower on Havermale Island. Today, trees and grass exist in place of railroad tracks and parking lots.
Photo by Cory Carpenter
This file appears in: Rediscovering the River
Rediscovering the River
How did Spokane get a hundred-acre park right in the middle of downtown? Riverfront Park was once a tangled mess of railroad tresses and industrial overgrowth. During the 1960s it was hard to even tell that a river flowed through the city because it…