Lower Falls, 1881
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The city of "Spokan Falls" was incorporated in 1881 with nearly a thousand residents. This image depicts the falls at the time of incorporation.
Image L87-1.17806-20 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
This file appears in: Water Power: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition
Water Power: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition
For nineteenth-century pioneers like James Glover, falling water represented power - the power to grind flour, to saw logs, and to build a city. These were the fundamental industrial activities in a…