About Clarkston, Washington

Clarkston is a city of 7,161 people in Asotin County, where the Snake and Clearwater rivers meet, just across the Snake from Lewiston, Idaho. In the 1890s a handful of settlers gathered near a ferry landing on the Washington bank and called their little community Jawbone Flat. One of them, Cassius C. Van Arsdol, who had once surveyed for the Northern Pacific Railroad as an engineer, built its first irrigation system, but it soon failed.

Boston investors then saw fruit country in the flat benches along the river. In 1896, led by Charles Francis Adams, they formed the Lewiston Water & Power Company, bought what was left of Van Arsdol's company and planned to dam Asotin Creek and send its water through a fifteen-mile canal to orchard plots of five to ten acres. They called the orchard land Vineland and laid out a town beside it. The Post Office refused the name Lewiston, so in 1897 the town became Concord, after Adams's Massachusetts hometown, and in 1900 voters renamed it Clarkston.

“The streetcar industry was enjoying its greatest boom that year … It was just impossible to secure cars. … We tried to get them from the Pullman Company and all the large and small manufacturers in the East, but orders were booked for months ahead. Finally we induced Spokane United Railways to sell us three of its old cars”
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  • Named for William ClarkMeriwether Lewis and William Clark camped at the Nez Perce village of Alpowa, near today's Port of Clarkston, on October 10, 1805. They stopped there a second time on May 4, 1806. The two towns on either side of the Snake later took their names: Lewiston for Lewis and Clarkston for Clark.
  • Water from the high lineThe company's first canals, based on Van Arsdol's old low-line design, sent the orchards too much water at some times and too little at others. Even so, Clarkston and Vineland held almost 2,000 people by 1900. In 1906 the company opened its high-line system, canals and flumes that finally gave steady water and reached a higher bench, which the company sold as Clarkston Heights. By 1907 the system was also helping supply hydroelectric power.
  • A bridge to Lewiston, 1899At first only a ferry crossed the Snake. Backed by the Boston investors, the Lewiston-Concord Bridge Company was formed in 1897 to build a toll bridge for wagons, walkers, utility lines and a street railroad. It opened on June 24, 1899, as the largest wagon bridge in Washington. In 1913 Asotin County and Idaho bought it for the public and made it toll free, and from 1915 streetcars ran across it between the two towns.
  • A town since 1902Clarkston became a fourth-class town on August 14, 1902, with Alexander Robinson as its first mayor, and rose to third class on March 7, 1912. The company that planned it never made much money. It was insolvent by 1940 and sold to a local group led by E. A. White, and when developers bought its last land in 1971, it closed after 75 years.

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Places and landmarks5

  • Clarkston City Hall
  • Beachview Park
  • Gateway Park
  • Arnold Park
  • Vernon Park

Streets and roads57

  • Fifth Street
  • Bridge Street
  • Sixth Street
  • 15th Street
  • 16th Avenue
  • Granite Lake Drive
  • Third Street
  • Port Drive
  • 13th Street
  • Ninth Street
  • Fair Street
  • Seventh Street
  • Eighth Street
  • Tenth Street
  • Chestnut Street
  • Poplar Street
  • Twelfth Street
  • Eleventh Street
  • Second Street
  • Sycamore Street
  • Fourth Street
  • Elm Street
  • Maple Street
  • Diagonal Street
  • Libby Street
  • Highland Avenue
  • Riverview Boulevard
  • Port Way
  • 14th Street
  • McCarroll Street
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  • First Street
  • Burns Street
  • Morrison Street
  • Billup Street
  • Billups Street
  • University Street
  • Adams Street
  • Ash Street
  • Beachview Boulevard
  • Sunrise Drive
  • Oak Street
  • Belmont Way
  • Terrace Drive
  • North Street
  • South Tenth Street
  • Evergreen Court
  • Zirbel Lane
  • Fleshman Way
  • Monroe Street
  • Confluence Way
  • College Court
  • Chamberlain Court
  • Walnut Court
  • Park Street
  • Commercial Way
  • Acorn Court
  • Benjamin Street

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