Camp Tuc-Ta-Hyaspum was established as a tsuka-do-tsa (camas root) digging camp in Ephrata by the Sinkiuse Tribe. Billy Curlew (Indian name: kul kuloo) was born here a few years after the Indian War of 1858 ended. In addition to the main camp at . . . — — Map (db m315870) HM
Ephrata was a summer Indian camp. Hundreds of Indians spent weeks gathering roots at the springs west of here. Ephrata was the gateway between Walla Walla & Okanogan. Indians, military expeditions, and wagons traveled here in 1880. The first . . . — — Map (db m129093) HM
Gladys Fuller was born in 1890 in Sydney (now known as Port Orchard) and attended Bremerton High School. In 1910, she received a teaching certificate from Bellingham Normal and got her first job that year, teaching 5th and 6th grades in Almira. She . . . — — Map (db m315876) HM
Chief Moses and many Indians from miles around came to gather food, trade & race horses each summer at the great encampment 3/4 mile east of here on Rocky Ford Creek. During the Nez Perce War of 1877, Chief Joseph sent runners to Chief Moses camp . . . — — Map (db m208206) HM
"A petition signed by several hundred thousand school children helped sway
Philadelphia officials to allow the Liberty Bell to travel the Panama Pacific
International Exposition in San Francisco in July 1915.
The Liberty Bell . . . — — Map (db m315874) HM
Bought 1925 by Nathaniel W. Washington, Sr., county prosecutor. Also home of Nat W. Washington, Jr., state rep. & senator from 1949-1979. — — Map (db m315446) HM
Governor's Advisory Council on Historic Preservation & Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation Recognizes that the Washington House in Ephrata, Washington has been listed on the Washington Heritage Register of . . . — — Map (db m308813) HM
These men from Grant County
gave their lives
serving their country
during the
South East Asian
conflict
Wilmot, Bill •
Canacos, Roy •
Monroe, Mike •
Zundel, Dennis •
Kelby, W. Robert •
Peterson, William J. •
Carter, Stanley . . . — — Map (db m300387) WM
The canyon west of town (running along what is now Sagebrush Flats Road) was part of a trail used by Indian tribes. It was filled with trees, springs and streams.
In 1889 the first permanent settlers, Frank and Latella Beezley, arrived here. . . . — — Map (db m315871) HM
Vern D. Matthews was a long time time resident and worked as a reporter for the Grant County Journal for many years. The following excerpts are from a series of articles he wrote in 1965 recounting his experiences growing up in Ephrata in the late . . . — — Map (db m315841) HM
