About Toppenish, Washington

Toppenish is a city of 8,854 people in Yakima County, inside the Yakama Reservation that the Treaty of 1855 set aside. For centuries the Yakama people fished for salmon in the Yakima River and dug roots on these grasslands, and by the early 1800s Chief Kamiakin, whose main camp lay north of today's town on Ahtanum Creek, was said to own thousands of horses. The site was still bare sagebrush in 1884, when the Northern Pacific Railway reached it and put up a depot, a water tank and a telegraph office.

For twenty years the station stayed small. In 1887 five families with Indian ancestry, the Bowzers, Frenches, Olneys, Robbinses and Spencers, received title to 80-acre allotments along the tracks. Once allottees could get full deeds, Josephine Bowzer Lillie divided the north 40 acres of her land into city lots and filed the plat on April 4, 1905. The lots sold fast, the town was incorporated on April 29, 1907, and by 1910 it had 1,598 people.

“Their squatters claims were the beginnings of the individual titles to the ground on which our present town is built”
H. M. Johnson, 1927
  • Sloping downward and spreadingThe railroad named its station for T-hoppenish, a Yakama word for the wide plain that slopes from the Cascades toward the Yakima River. Mapmakers had already given the name to Toppenish Creek and to the dry ridge above it, and the new station stood about four miles north of the creek.
  • The Mother of ToppenishJosephine Bowzer Lillie, a member of the Yakama Tribe, and her husband Nevada H. Lillie opened a store with a post office in 1887. She soon moved her claim closer to the depot, built a new store and lived in the back with her family. In 1893 they built a 12-room house, and when the store burned in 1894 she ran the post office from her home.
  • 1,400 freight cars in 1903A government canal begun in 1897 brought water to 20,000 acres around Toppenish, and white farmers leased cropland from tribal allottees. The Washington Nursery Company took a lease on 350 acres in 1903 and shipped trees across the country, and for a long time it paid more workers than any other employer in town. That same year the depot sent out between 1,300 and 1,400 cars of hay, fruit, potatoes, hops and livestock.
  • Church in a freight roomToppenish had no church in 1897, so station agent William Leslie Shearer got the railroad's leave to hold services in the depot's freight room. He then helped organize the first Methodist church, whose new building also held school classes in time for the 1898-1899 term. In 1905 he and Frank J. Lemon opened the town's first drugstore.
  • City of Murals since 1989The first mural, "Clearing the Land," went up in 1989, and Toppenish now has more than 75 painted on its walls, each showing the region as it was between 1840 and 1940. The town also keeps the American Hop Museum, the Northern Pacific Railway Museum and the Yakama Nation Museum and Cultural Heritage Center.

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Places and landmarks1

  • Elmwood Cemetery

Streets and roads79

  • Evergreen Highway
  • South Elm Street
  • Buena Way
  • East Toppenish Avenue
  • South Toppenish Avenue
  • Meyers Road
  • Lincoln Avenue
  • East First Avenue
  • West First Avenue
  • Monroe Avenue
  • Rentschler Lane
  • Idaho Street
  • East Second Avenue
  • Chehalis Avenue
  • Washington Avenue
  • Jefferson Avenue
  • Adams Avenue
  • Madison Avenue
  • South Beech Street
  • Satus Avenue
  • Asotin Avenue
  • South Alder Street
  • South Division Street
  • West Third Avenue
  • North Chestnut Street
  • North Date Street
  • West Second Avenue
  • West Fourth Avenue
  • Fraley Road
  • Dayton Avenue
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  • North Elm Street
  • Bolin Drive
  • North Fir Street
  • South East Street
  • Lillie Lane
  • North East Street
  • Ellensburg Avenue
  • Jackson Street
  • South Date Street
  • East Third Avenue
  • West Fifth Avenue
  • Guyette Avenue
  • South Hawthorne Street
  • Ward Road
  • Franklin Avenue
  • Bellingham Avenue
  • South Chestnut Street
  • South Fir Street
  • Zillah Avenue
  • Robart Lane
  • Berger Lane
  • Brooks Lane
  • Hammond Lane
  • Annahat Road
  • King Lane
  • North Track Road
  • Penny Lane
  • Maple Court
  • Linden Street
  • Idaho Avenue
  • South Juniper Street
  • North Beech Street
  • Goldendale Avenue
  • South Ivy Street
  • Zillah Drive
  • South Gardenia Street
  • Bonnie Lane
  • Pearne Street
  • North Hawthorne Street
  • North Gardenia Street
  • Carlson Avenue
  • Germantown Road
  • Longview Avenue
  • Katsura Street
  • North Alder Street
  • East McDonald Road
  • Wishkoski Way
  • 3 Star Avenue
  • West Sixth Avenue

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