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Camp Washington Monument

After a storm of protests by historians, it was moved to the present site in 1928, located off Coulee-Hite Road on the north side between Ladd and Gray Roads.

Camp Washington was at the east end of Four Mound Prairie, at the Forks of Coulee Creek, northwest of the site of Spokane. It was established and occupied from October 17 to 30, 1853, by Isaac I. Stevens, first territorial governor of Washington, and was used as headquarters for several side trips. He was traveling to Olympia with a military party of 243 persons, to begin his term as governor. He named his first camp in this state for the first president of the United States and some like to refer to it as the first capital of the territory.

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Hyslop Barn

Thomas Hyslop arrived in Spokane in 1879, from Nova Scotia, Canada. Shortly thereafter he staked out a quarter section of land where the existing buildings of the Hyslop farm are located. After the USGS survey was done in the area, Thomas filed for a homestead. Upon meeting the requirements for a homestead, which included five years working the land, improvements, and naturalization, the homestead was granted. The original homestead document is signed by President Grover Cleveland. Over a number of years, Thomas added contiguous parcels of land to the farm until it reached 1280 acres. In 1912, after graduating from WSC, Thomas’ youngest son Victor took over the farming operation. At the time there were a number of older buildings on the farm: a house in the area of the existing barnyard, a bunkhouse, a small wooden elevator/machine storage building and a blacksmith shop. The barn was erected in 1926 and at the time of its building, all farming was done with horses and the barn’s primary purpose was for storage of loose hay and oats, and feeding and harnessing the horses.

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