"Great Falls of the Spokane River, W.T.," 1858
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Sketched by Gustavus Sohon, this drawing from 1858 shows the Spokane Falls before pioneer settlement in 1871.
Image LC-USZ61-1953 courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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…