The Centennial Trail: The Aquifer Virtual Cache
The Centennial Trail: The Aquifer
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Centennial Trail State Park is a 372-acre day-use park, 37 miles long. The park consists of a paved trail meandering along the Spokane River and extending from Nine Mile Falls to the Idaho state line (A note from kavuday concerning the Centennial Trail. It doesn't stop at the Idaho border, but extends well into Idaho finally ending at the east shore of Lake Coeur d'Alene). The trail is punctuated with 42 historical and archaelogical sites, most of which remain to be marked.
Centennial Trail History
The trail was dedicated and named the Centennial Trail in 1989, in commemoration of Washington state's 100th birthday that year.
Traveling west from the state line, one passes the site of the first bridge built over the Spokane River in 1864, and the site of the white settlement that preceded the city of Spokane. At milepost #2 sets the Horse Slaughter Camp monument. This is the site on which, in 1858, Colonel George Wright and his troops rounded up and killed 800 Indian horses to discourage future Indian uprisings. Down river from the Maribeau Park area is Plantes Ferry County Park. Here Isaac Stevens, the first territorial governor, met with the Upper and Middle Spokane in December, 1855. Also on this site, Antoine Plante operated a ferry from 1852 until 1864, when the Spokane bridge was built.
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