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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
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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
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              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
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              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
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1898  Jan                      
Northport smelter blown in
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1948                                          Great spring flood
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  • Home
    • Smelter Monument
    • Fire House House
    • Cemeteries
  • A History of Northport
  • The Virtual Museum
    • What a Stranger Saw 1901
    • Schools
    • Landmarks >
      • landmarks page 2
      • The Opera House
      • Kendrick Mercantile
      • Smelter Pumping Station
    • Ferries
    • Bridging the Columbia
    • Floods
    • Northport Fires >
      • One More Fire
      • 1898 Fire
      • 1914 fire
      • School Gym
      • New Zealand Hotel fire
    • Northport Smelter 1897-1910 >
      • Washington Geologic Survey 1902
    • Northport Smelter 1916-1921 >
      • Washinton Geological Survey 1921
    • OLD MAPS
    • Waterfalls, Lakes and the Columbia River
    • other resources >
      • Powering Northport 1893-1942
      • Polk Directory 1911-1912
      • Polk Directory 1916-17
      • 1922 Phone Book
  • The Welcome Center Project
    • Newsletter
    • donate
    • history
  • membership application