South Channel of the Spokane Falls, c.1903
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By 1900, many businesses established themselves along the river, harnessing the power of the falls.
Image L87-1.169 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
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Water Power
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 region still rich in timber and already rich in…