View from top of Loop Drive looking North at Pond

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Image part of the glass plate negatives from the Spokane Parks and Recreation Department, accessed thanks to Tony and Suzanne Bamonte, Spokane, WA.

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By Tracy L. Rebstock
Most of Manito Park is visible from the top of Loop Drive. Did you ever wonder where Spokane got the land for this park? In 1884, Francis Cook, an early settler of Spokan Falls and a newspaper man who started the Spokan Times in 1879, platted…