About Granger, Washington

Granger is a city of 3,624 people in Yakima County, midway between Zillah and Sunnyside in the Yakima Valley. In the 1890s Walter Granger and a group of investors from St. Paul, Minnesota, began digging the Sunnyside Canal to bring water to this dry sagebrush country. In 1904 the Granger Land Company laid out a town between the two older settlements and named it for him. Ads in Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane papers drew scores of buyers, and the new town soon had a bank, a hotel, saloons, a bakery and a cannery.

Granger incorporated on September 28, 1909. The first baby born in the new city was named Walter Granger Nelson, and Granger himself gave the child an engraved silver cup and spoon. More than 200 people moved in during that first year, and so many were families that the town built a four-room schoolhouse, then quickly outgrew it.

  • Bricks from the clay pitsThe Granger Clay Products Company opened its brickyard in 1903, before the town was even laid out, and it gave newcomers steady work for decades. Others found jobs on farms growing asparagus, potatoes, wheat, hops and cherries. The brickyard shut down in the 1960s when its clay ran out, and Granger entered hard times.
  • Weddings for 39 centsDuring the Great Depression, Clay Bell owned the Granger Hardware and Furniture store and also served as Justice of the Peace. He advertised "Guaranteed Weddings" for 39 cents, Readers Digest wrote about the stunt, and couples traveled from miles around to be married cheaply.
  • A bridge that waited 25 yearsIn 1942 the bridge carrying traffic over the Yakima River collapsed, cutting off the south road into town. Wartime shortages meant only steel and timber salvaged from torn-down bridges could go into a new one, so the town got a narrow temporary span with low limits on speed and weight. Drivers put up with it for 25 years until a concrete bridge opened in 1967.
  • The Bracero workers of 1942With many young men away at war, local farms ran short of hands, and in 1942 more than 500 Mexican nationals came to the valley under the federal Bracero program. Some stayed and became citizens, and relatives and friends followed. By 2013 almost 90 percent of Granger was Hispanic. Radio KDNA, a Spanish-language station that served farm workers, built its first studio in Granger in 1979.
  • Where dinosaurs roamBy the 1980s Granger ranked among Washington's poorest towns, and in 1990 its 2,053 residents had a median age of 24.1. Because workers had once dug woolly mammoth bones and tusks from a clay pit, town leaders chose dinosaurs to draw wine country visitors. The first, a young brontosaurus, went up in Hisey Park in 1994, and residents add one each year at the Dino-in-a-Day festival.

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Names on the Granger map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks2

  • Granger City Hall
  • Hisey Park

Streets and roads63

  • West Hudson Road
  • Arstein Boulevard
  • East Avenue
  • East Second Street
  • West Boulevard North
  • East Third Street
  • Mathew Avenue
  • Mathew Street
  • East First Street
  • Bailey Avenue
  • Cherry Hill Road
  • Second Avenue
  • Campground Road
  • Mentzer Avenue
  • Bagley Road
  • Main Street
  • Emerald Road
  • Temby Lane
  • West First Street
  • Dean Avenue
  • Railroad Avenue
  • Liberty Avenue
  • Sunnyside Avenue
  • East Fourth Street
  • Fourth Avenue
  • Sixth Avenue
  • Lapierre Road
  • Mark Street
  • La Pierre Road
  • Ruehl Way
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  • South La Pierre Road
  • Yakima Valley Highway
  • West First Avenue
  • Third Avenue
  • Jessica Lane
  • East Street
  • Mark Avenue
  • Bridge Street
  • Barker Avenue
  • East Fifth Street
  • Granger Avenue
  • Elenbaas Road
  • West Second Street
  • Merlot Street
  • Eagle Nest Drive
  • Barker Road
  • Sharon Lane
  • Zinfandel Street
  • School Drive
  • Chardonnay Street
  • Guzman Avenue
  • Peterson Avenue
  • Zillah Avenue
  • Temby Place
  • West Third Street
  • Second Street
  • Eagle Nest
  • Cabernet Street
  • Harris Avenue
  • Beverly Lane
  • Hutton Avenue
  • Fifth Avenue
  • Roosevelt Avenue

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