About Liberty Lake, Washington

Liberty Lake is a city of 12,003 people in Spokane County, about a mile from the Idaho line. In 1858 Colonel George Wright named the lake Lake Grier, after Major William N. Grier, one of his officers in the Battle of the Four Lakes. In 1871 Etienne Laliberté, a Quebec-born fur trader and mail carrier, settled on the western shore with his wife Christine. There they planted 25 acres of fruit trees and kept livestock, and he later took the name Stephen Liberty.

In 1903 the Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad started running electric trains out from Spokane. The ride took 45 minutes and cost 75 cents round-trip, and a horse-drawn stage carried riders the rest of the way to the water for 25 cents more. Hotels, roadhouses and dance halls went up around the shore. The trains stopped in 1926 as more people drove cars. The city was incorporated on August 31, 2001, though the lake itself sits just outside its limits.

“Many spent the night to listen to Tecomtee's beautiful lyric tenor voice echo across the lake as he sang the Prophecy Songs of Circling Raven”
Ellen Martin Bernardo, The Splash
  • Chief Seltice's summer feastAndrew Seltice, chief of the Coeur d'Alene tribe, held a celebration on the lakeshore every July 1. Some 500 guests came for horse races, foot races, canoe races and other contests, with prizes for the winners. Three steers were cooked for the crowd, served with bread, camas, fruit and dried huckleberries.
  • A lake renamed for a friendNeighbors Stephen Liberty and Chief Seltice became friends. Liberty had learned several Native languages and wrote the chief's letters about treaties and a reservation. In 1887 they and others went to Washington, D.C., to see President Grover Cleveland about the reservation's boundaries. The treaty was never ratified, so Liberty made several more trips for the tribe. After his death in 1911 the lake took his name, and a monument went up at its north end in 2011.
  • Spokane's Inland SeashoreIn 1909 the railroad opened Liberty Lake Park on the northwest side of the lake and advertised it as Spokane's "Inland Seashore." On Sundays and holidays in 1913, trains of five cars left for the park twice an hour. The Fourth of July drew the biggest crowds: in 1924 about 14,000 people came, 9,000 of them by train.
  • Room for 628 couplesThe park's dance pavilion stood on a pier reaching 200 feet out over the water, and its maple floor was said to hold 628 couples. The Phil Sheridan Orchestra, Mann Brothers' Music and Dutch Groshoff's orchestra all played there. It ran until 1962, when fire destroyed it. The 14.2-acre Pavillion Park, built in 1995 on land given by founding families, recalls the old pavilions with its amphitheater and picnic shelter.
  • The Zephyr's fresh startCharles Traeger opened the lake's first dance hall in 1902 as part of his Zephyr roadhouse, which was known for gambling and liquor. After he married in 1908, his wife pushed him to run a more respectable place, and the roadhouse became the Zephyr Hotel. It stayed a hotel until 1946, when the Disciples of Christ church bought it for $20,000.

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Places and landmarks3

  • Chatnwaqhi'łpm Grove
  • Pavilion Park
  • Liberty Lake Golf Course

Streets and roads92

  • East Mission Avenue
  • North Liberty Lake Road
  • East Country Vista Drive
  • East Maxwell Drive
  • Country Vista Drive
  • North Country Vista Boulevard
  • East Sprague Avenue
  • North Harvard Road
  • North Simpson Road
  • South Legacy Ridge Drive
  • North Winchester Street
  • East Appleway Avenue
  • North Molter Road
  • East Valleyway Avenue
  • East Valley Vista Drive
  • East Knox Avenue
  • East Boone Avenue
  • North Holl Boulevard
  • East Hawkstone Loop
  • Dunbarton Oaks Lane
  • East Broadway Avenue
  • North Homestead Drive
  • Malvern Street
  • North Henry Road
  • East Wellington Parkway
  • East Settler Drive
  • North Garry Drive
  • East Maxwell Avenue
  • Indiana Avenue
  • North Madson Street
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  • North Wright Boulevard
  • East Indiana Avenue
  • Stimson Lane
  • East Chimney Lane
  • North Winrock Street
  • East Nora Avenue
  • North Knudson Street
  • North Tanglewood Lane
  • North Aladdin Road
  • North Rydal Lane
  • Maxwell Lane
  • North Rocky Hill Lane
  • East Cataldo Avenue
  • North Mitchell Drive
  • Cirque Lane
  • East Alki Lane
  • Sedge Lane
  • North Oakland Road
  • North Bella Lago Lane
  • North Cavalier Road
  • East Bitterroot Lane
  • East Reston Avenue
  • North Forest Ridge Street
  • East Sharp Avenue
  • East Sinto Avenue
  • East Autumn Crossing Avenue
  • East Blue Ridge Avenue
  • East Riverside Avenue
  • Murray Lane
  • North Ormond Road
  • East Edgewater Lane
  • North Eagle Street
  • North Cavalier Court
  • Winchester Lane
  • North Pepper Lane
  • East Olive Lane
  • East Rockrose Lane
  • North McKinzie Drive
  • North Signal Drive
  • East Colony Court
  • North Talon Road
  • North Drury Court
  • East Glenbrook Avenue
  • East Caufield Avenue
  • North Heton Lane
  • East Desmet Road
  • East Meyers Avenue
  • East Clairmont Lane
  • East Main Avenue
  • South Parkview Court
  • East Ludlow Avenue
  • East Penrose Lane
  • North Mitchell Road
  • North Madson Court
  • King James Lane
  • East Knox Lane
  • East Knox Court
  • North Malvern Road
  • North Wolfe Penn Street
  • Pinehurst Lane
  • North Carson Range Street
  • North Madson Road

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