A Patriotic Gathering at McGraw Square
Hanford prepares for a local flag-raising ceremony, part of a wider Benton County effort to boost wartime morale.
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Sunday will be Flag Raising day in Hanford. The program will include a musical chorus by school children and short addresses by C. A. Perkins and Col. McDowell of Hanford, along with F. M. Weil of White Bluffs. The exercises will be held at 3 p. m. in McGraw Square in the center of town. The flag is one of three purchased by Benton County, with each commissioner receiving one to present to their district. A ball game is also scheduled for the afternoon, with large delegations expected from Kennewick and Prosser, and a significant crowd likely traveling from White Bluffs to attend.
“The flag is one of three purchased by Benton county, one being given to each of the three commissioners.”
McGraw Square and the town of Hanford were famously lost to the Manhattan Project in the 1940s, eventually becoming part of the Hanford Site exclusion zone. This story documents a civic life that was permanently erased by the federal government just a few decades after this report.
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