Kennewick General Hospital - HDK#7 Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 7/4/2012
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Historic Downtown Kennewick caches. - Collect the whole set.


HDK-Kennewick General Hospital
While Kennewick General Hospital celebrates its sixtieth anniversary in 2012, the history of medical care in the area known today as Kennewick goes back into the past century.

The town of Kennewick dates itself from the building of the Northern Pacific Railroad bridge in 1883. At that time, there were no doctors resident in the small construction town; any doctors in the area were railroad doctors based in Pasco. Dr. Blalock sometimes did ride on horseback from Walla Walla for emergencies such as broken bones, but no surgery was done in the Kennewick vicinity and people either died or they went by whatever means they could find to hospitals in Walla Walla, Spokane, Seattle, or Portland. They had a choice of travel by riverboat, horse, railroad, or often a combination of the three. It took two days of tedious travel to get to Walla Walla; buggies were slow and the Columbia River had to be crossed by ferry to Wallula, a ferry that ran several times during the day, but never at night.

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