The Fight for a Columbia River Highway
Local delegations from White Bluffs and Hanford lobby for a state highway to secure the future of the river route.
D. S. Wilkinson, W. J. Kincaid, H. E. Robinson, Fred Gilhuly and Henry Glanzman of White Bluffs and J. C. Syfford, C. A. Stevens, K. P. Reynolds and A. M. Rollinger of Hanford together with two cars of Kennewick folks made up a party that drove to Wenatchee the latter part of last week to attend the “Everyday Road” convention. The purpose of the convention was to start a movement that it is expected will some day mean the building of a state highway up and down the Columbia river from the Canadian border to the Columbia River Highway in Oregon. The delegation from White Bluffs, Hanford and Kennewick went up to see that such a route would follow the river through Benton county and not get strayed off on some by-path.
“The delegation... went up to see that such a route would follow the river through Benton county and not get strayed off on some by-path.”
The infrastructure battles for the Columbia River corridor defined the region's development in the 1920s. Today, those same routes are vital arteries for regional commerce and tourism, continuing the long-standing local focus on controlling the path of major transportation networks through the Tri-Cities area.
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