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Kent

This 14 mile side trip drives up the White River Valley to the historic downtown of Kent.

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The tour winds through the extensively cultivated White River Valley, where in the 1940s great fields of lettuce or celery and smaller acreages in cauliflower, peas, beans, and beets adjoined poultry ranches. The packing season generally started in May with the shipment of rhubarb. Much of the produce was expressed to New York. Today industrial and shipping warehouse development has covered much of the former farm land. First known as...

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Langstons Landing

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Alvord’s Landing

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Brannan Cabin Site

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Mary Olson Farm