Once known as Big Bend country, its land a story of a grand river, ice age glaciers, and ancient massive floods. A story of native peoples and cultures. Of frontier men and women. Its a story of big engineering. Grand ideas, and grand vision…and their consequences. Its as much an american story as there is one…an unfinished story.
The glacier scarred monolith that is Douglas county, can be seen from space. Framed in on the south by the green Quincy basin sprawling south and east, to Lincoln, Adams, and Franklin Counties, to the rest of the irrigation network called the Columbia Basin Project. 671,000 acres of an original 1,029,000 acres planned. All made possible by the Grand Coulee Dam, an interesting story by itself, but for all people living in the area it’s a story worth knowing… “Columbia Basin 101″…as it were. To see how history is still so relevant watch this preview: PBS American Experience-Grand Coulee Dam.
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