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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPRB_beck-memorial_Ellensburg-WA.html
Fiery FloodsTwenty-five million years ago, this area was a land of meandering streams and lush, rolling hills. Then came the first lave flow. Long cracks or vents opened in the earth and lava flooded the land spreading like water. The lava cooled …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPQI_the-olmstead-place_Ellensburg-WA.html
It's hard to imagine, but you are about to enter a fertile valley. Named for the Indians who lived here time immemorial, the Kittitas Valley was the destination of many American settlers who came to the Washington Territory in the 1860s. Rich, nat…
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Imagine standing here millions of years ago on the edge of a huge plain fringed by distant mountains. Cypress trees grow in the swamps. Maple, sycamore, ginkgo, sequoia, and fir cover the nearby hills and mountains. Ancestors of rhinoceroses and c…