Marcus, Washington

ID: 3265
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The muddy streets of Marcus before it was flooded behind the newly-built dam.

Image L86-48.9 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture

This file appears in: Damming the Columbia

By The Spokane Historical team
Talk of a Columbia River dam began in arid Ephrata, Washington in 1917, when city leaders met to discuss ways to boost wartime food production. If glacial dams once plugged the river, they argued, why couldn't concrete do the same? A rival…