|
Sagebrush Annie, Milwaukee's regular train into the Priest Rapids
Valley, with a Tacoma Eastern steam engine
Milwaukee Depot, White Bluffs. Milwaukee built the depot in 1913,
and the "old town" of White Bluffs rebuilt itself around the new
depot.
The "Orchards of Eden" at White Bluffs, Washington
|
Aerial Photograph of White Bluffs, May, 1943. Lengthy train carloads
at key industries apparently show evacuation trains, taking
equipment, supplies and inventory out of White Bluffs before the
town was destroyed.
Main Street, White Bluffs
White Bluffs is boarded up, 1943, before the Government moves in to
burn the town and the surrounding orchards to the ground.
|
Kristi Pihl, "Franklin County Places White Bluffs
Marker," Tri-city Herald, May 18, 2011.
Rob McKenna, "Battle is Putting Politics over
People," Hanford News, July 128, 2010.
Gale Metcalf, "Residents Recall Long-gone Towns," Hanford News,
August 2, 1993
"Hanford Pioneer, Advocate Annette Heriford Dies at 88," Hanford
News, August 8, 2009
Annette Cary, "66 Years Later, Family Allowed to Visit Ranch Lost at
Hanford's Inception, Hanford News, May 10, 2009
John Trumbo, "Exhibit Recounts Residents' Story," Tri-City
Herald, October 17, 2008
Annette Cary, "Historic Photos Show a Time Before Hanford,"
Hanford News, June 15, 2008
William Rickard, "Atomic Bomb Left Many Memories," Hanford News,
August 8, 2007
"Tradition Restored," Hanford News, June 16, 2005
Dori O'Neal, "Young Hanford Serves as Backdrop for 'White Bluffs',"
Hanford News, July 7, 2000
John Trumbo, "Homecoming Bittersweet for ex-White Bluffs Resident,"
Hanford News, August 6, 2000
John Stang, "90-Year-Old Yakima Man a Living Link to Hanford's
Pioneer Past," Hanford News, October 3, 1999
Chris Sivula, "Observing 60: Fateful Flight Found Site for Secret
War Project," Hanford News, December 22, 2002
Chris Sivula, "Hanford's Natural Assets Made It a Natural for War
Effort," Hanford News, December 22, 2002
Gale Metcalf, "We Were in Such Shock: 30-day Notices Pushed Off
Farmers Who Settled a Desert," Hanford News, February 21,
1993
Robert Woehler, "Towns Yield to War: Hanford Built on Homesteads,"
Hanford News, February 21, 1993
Chris Sivula, John Stang, Gale Metcalf, "Making Room for an Atomic
Age," Hanford News, February 21, 1993
"Farmers Followed Indians, Traders to Bluffs Beside Columbia,"
Hanford News, February 21, 1993
Annette Cary, "Lost Towns Remembered," Hanford News, August
3, 2003
Books:
Nancy Mendenhall,
"Orchards of Eden: White Bluffs on the Columbia, 1907-1943,"
Seattle: Far Eastern Press, 2006.
Mary Powell Harris, "Goodbye, White Bluffs," (Yakima: Franklin
Press, 1972).
Martha Berry Parker, "Tales of Richland, White Bluffs and Hanford,
1805-1943," (Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1986).
|
|
|
|