About Cashmere, Washington

Cashmere is a city of 3,248 people in Chelan County, on the south bank of the Wenatchee River. Before settlers came, the Sinpesquensi band of the Wenatchi lived at Ntuatckam, a village of about 400 people on this site in 1850. Catholic missionaries led by Father Urban Grassi built St. Francis Xavier Mission in 1873, and the church they put up in 1888 gave the settlers' village its first name, Mission.

Alexander Brender, a German immigrant, homesteaded in Brender Canyon in 1881, and D. S. Farrar brought in the first fruit trees in 1883. John Frank Woodring became postmaster in 1889, and on July 27, 1892, he and I. W. Sherman filed a plat for the townsite as the Great Northern Railway reached the valley. Other Northwest towns were also called Mission, which muddled the mail and the trains, so the town became Cashmere on July 1, 1904, and incorporated that November. It grew to 625 people by 1910 and 1,114 by 1920.

“Here we see the first evidences of the wonderful outcome of irrigation. Thrifty and productive orchards grow in all directions in the midst of which are large, comfortable and attractive homes”
The Coast magazine, October 1906
  • Named from a poemJudge James Harvey Chase, a former teacher of elocution known for his public readings, suggested the name Cashmere from Thomas Moore's poem "Lalla Rookh," which praises the mountain scenery of the Vale of Kashmir. Chase also helped create Chelan County and kept the books of the Peshastin Ditch as its secretary treasurer. In his old age, locals called him "Cashmere's grand old man."
  • Water for the orchardsAround 1889 a group of pioneers started digging the Peshastin Ditch by hand, and in 1901 it finally carried water to the orchard land on the slopes above town. The ditch later joined the Shotwell Ditch and the larger Highline Canal in one valley system that waters orchards from Dryden to Wenatchee. By the fall of 1906, Cashmere had shipped 135 carloads of fruit in a single season.
  • Boxes for the applesAll those apples needed crates, so in 1902 Frederick Schmitten started a sawmill in Brender Canyon that turned out fruit boxes, with loggers cutting timber at five places in the woods. In 1910 he built a full lumber mill in Cashmere that kept mill hands and loggers employed for decades. Pack River bought the company in 1973 and ran it until 1977.
  • School out for the harvestCashmere schools once let students out each fall to pick apples. In the fall of 1950, working after classes, on weekends and then through a two-week harvest vacation, the students filled 150,000 boxes.
  • Home of Aplets & CotletsLiberty Orchards makes its Aplets & Cotlets candies in Cashmere. In 1997, after the company threatened to leave, the city gave two of its main streets new names, Aplets Way and Cotlets Avenue, in a promotion the company had requested.

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Names on the Cashmere map

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Places and landmarks3

  • Cashmere City Hall
  • Cashmere Cemetery
  • John Simpson Memorial Park

Streets and roads95

  • Old Highway 2
  • Olive Street
  • Olive Avenue
  • Flowery Divide Road
  • Old State Highway
  • Rank Road
  • North Division Street
  • Laural Street
  • Aplets Way
  • East Parkhill Street
  • Emerald Avenue
  • Norman Avenue
  • Cedar Street
  • Sunset Highway
  • Pioneer Avenue
  • Cottage Avenue
  • Chapel Street
  • Titchenal Road
  • Mission Avenue
  • Elberta Avenue
  • Evergreen Drive
  • Blue Star Way
  • South Division Street
  • Valley View Drive
  • Mill Road
  • Valley Street
  • Tigner Road
  • Eels Road
  • Riverfront Drive
  • Paton Street
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  • Mission Creek Road
  • River Street
  • Sullivan Street
  • Skyline Drive
  • Sunset Avenue
  • Railroad Avenue
  • Tichenal Road
  • Kimber Road
  • Chase Avenue
  • Kennedy Road
  • Maple Street
  • Hughes Drive
  • South Douglas Street
  • Old Monitor Road
  • Cotlets Way
  • Parkhill Street
  • White Birch Place
  • Vine Street
  • School Lane
  • Perry Street
  • Creekside Place
  • Riverside Drive
  • Woodring Street
  • Mount Stuart Drive
  • Oak Street
  • Aldous Street
  • East Cashmere Road
  • Tanager Lane
  • Orchid Street
  • Peshastin Street
  • Fisher Street
  • West Pleasant Avenue
  • Pioneer Drive
  • Washington Street
  • North Douglas Street
  • Cascade Place
  • Museum Drive
  • Binder Road
  • Garden Circle
  • Birch Street
  • Buke Road
  • East Pleasant Avenue
  • Prospect Street
  • Titchenal Way
  • Independence Way
  • Big Rock Place
  • Mission View Place
  • Fasken Drive
  • Fir Crest Drive
  • Meadow Sweet Place
  • Phillips Place
  • Lincoln Street
  • West Prospect Street
  • Yakima Street
  • Foster Street
  • Angier Avenue
  • Mount View Place
  • McGill Street
  • Newberry Street
  • Glen Street
  • Ivy Avenue
  • East Mission Avenue
  • Julie Ann Court
  • Crest View Place
  • North Street

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