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.