The town of Grand Coulee, 1936

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Just above the dam, the Town of Grand Coulee flourished during the period of construction.

Image L87-1.9135-36 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…