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More to Washington than meets the eye

Apr 2023
  ⁄  
Chris Adams

On each tour at Historic Washington State Park, if people look down, they will sometimes notice an artifact, such as broken pottery, gracing the ground where a burrowing rodent has shifted it to the top of the surface. This artifact was hidden throughout the years and was biding its time, waiting for discovery. Like this pottery, the 1850s landscape we interpret lies at...

black and white plot graph of Historic Washington State Park

“A Walk In The Park” The Jett and Simms Well

Nov 2022
  ⁄  
Chris Adams

The Jet and Simms Well sits on the Jet and Simms General Merchandise Store site next to the park's Print Museum.

The Jett and Simms Well.
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