Eltopia, Washington
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| Area code | 509 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1512190[1] |
Eltopia (.
This arid area of south Franklin County was originally inhabited by
After the Yakima War of the late 1850s, settlers began to arrive in the region. The first settlers were the cattle ranchers who wanted the vast rangelands available, and those panning for gold in the nearby Columbia river at Ringold (variously Ringgold and Ringgold Bar).
In the late 1870s settlement began in earnest in
By 1902, there were enough settlers in the area that a town site was platted, but Eltopia has never been officially incorporated as a city. The story is told that the name comes from an incident among the railroad workers building the town. When a storm washed away some work that had been done, a Cockney worker commented that, "There will be hell to pay".[3][4]
Notes
- ^ "Eltopia Summary Report". nationalmap.gov. U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved May 1, 2022.
- ^ "Franklin County -- Thumbnail History – HistoryLink.org". historylink.org.
- ^ "Washington State Tourism Eltopia". Archived from the original on March 8, 2010. Retrieved March 7, 2009.
- ^ "Unusual names, odd spellings found in Washington". The Spokesman-Review. December 24, 1977. pp. A12. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
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