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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E53_small-town-big-voice_LaCrosse-WA.html
Small Town, Big Voice. . Welcome to Palouse Falls, Washington's official state waterfall. Behind this designation by the state legislature is a story of how local students with a vision created state law - and made state history. . . Waterfall …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2532_m-r-military-road_LaCrosse-WA.html
M - R
Military
Wagon Road
Located by
Capt. John Mullan
1858-1862
Pyramid erected by
Mullan Road Ass'n
Tablet Furnished by
Washington State
Historical Society
1926
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KEB_setting-the-stage_LaCrosse-WA.html
Long before the Ice Age floods could carve the coulees, waterfalls, and cliffs that dominate this landscape, basalt was needed, and in huge quantities! Vents from deep in the earth's crust supplied the basalt, erupting again and again to cover muc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KEA_overwhelming-proof-for-an-outrageous-theory_LaCrosse-WA.html
Geologist J Harlen Bretz spent decades meticulously documenting evidence to support his theory that massive Ice Age floods carved the Channeled Scabland of eastern Washington. But the geologic community only ridiculed and scorned his work ... unti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KE9_stealing-a-stream_LaCrosse-WA.html
Before the Ice Age floods, no stream or waterfall existed here. Instead, the Palouse River flowed through Washtucna Coulee. What caused the river to jump its course?
When the floods surged across the area, they cut a path through the fractured …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KE8_in-the-path-of-cataclysmic-floods_LaCrosse-WA.html
You are standing in the pathway of some of the largest floods ever known. They carved steep-walled canyons, sculpted immense waterfalls, and left behind landscapes found nowhere else on earth.
Massive Glacial Dams and Lakes
During the last Ice…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KE7_explosive-massive-floodscapes_LaCrosse-WA.html
Raging Ice Age floodwaters carved spectacular features throughout eastern Washington, creating unique landscapes. Follow the path of the floods and discover more about this amazing story.
Path of Least Resistance
As floodwaters rushed across e…