Marcus
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Indians observing a Marcus 4th of July celebration in the 1890s. Indian villages were also relocated with the construction of the dam.
Courtesy of the Northwest Room at the Spokane Public Library.
This file appears in: Good Fishing on the Main Street of Marcus
Good Fishing on the Main Street of Marcus
As the Grand Coulee Dam grew higher in the 1930s, the water of the Columbia River rose behind it. 150 miles of the free-flowing river was transformed into the placid Lake Roosevelt, drowning hundreds of acres of timber, farmland, Indian villages,…