The dining hall, 1935

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Facilities like this fed hundreds of workers every day.

Image L87-1.6815-35 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…