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History Timeline

1890  August

Spokane Falls and Northern RR built to Little Dalles, connects with the Columbia & Kootenay Steam Navigation Company's riverboats

Little Dalles 1891 - G. R. Warren

1892  May

Town of Northport platted

              June 1

T L Savage opens the first general store in a log cabin

              July 4

William P. Hughes publishes first edition of The Northport News

              Aug 5

Northport saw mill begins operations

              Sept 18

SF&N Railroad reaches Northport

              Oct 8

Northport Mining District established
Northport School District established

              Dec 12

School opens with twelve pupils

1893   Jan 1

Northport Post Office established

              May 8

First great fire

              June

Railroad Depot built
Railroad extended to Boundary

              June 9

First birth in Northport

              July

Rail bridge completed over the Pend Oreille river

              Aug 10

Second great fire

1894  June 4              

Great storm and flood

1896  Feb

North half of Indian reservation opened to mineral entry

              Mar 18

Third great fire

              May      

Construction begins on Columbia and Red  Mountain RR

              Aug 20                           

Train ferry on the Columbia River at Northport launched

              Dec            

 Columbia and Red Mountain RR reaches Rossland B. C.

1897  Aug                  

  Construction begins on smelter at Northport

             Oct 11                         

Railroad bridge over the Columbia opens

1898  Jan                      

Northport smelter blown in

1948                                          Great spring flood