Sunday, May 12, 2013

Phone photo 2470

This obscure spot next to the railroad tracks just outside of Longview, Washington has a sign marking the area as the site of the 1852 Monticello Convention, where settlers who lived north of the Columbia River in the Oregon Territory created a petition to form their own political subdivision because they wanted to have the freedom to pump gasoline into their vehicles on their own. This was the beginning of what later became Washington State.

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