"Vote No on Township Disorganization," 1974.
This file appears in: Spokane Valley Heritage Museum/Opportunity Township Hall
This sign is from the 1974 Washington State vote to disorganize county townships. Opportunity residents and government officials ran a concerted campaign to tell voters to not allow for disorganization. Their attempts were in vain and the voters of Washington approved the measure to dissolve the State's various townships.
This file appears in: Spokane Valley Heritage Museum/Opportunity Township Hall
Spokane Valley Heritage Museum/Opportunity Township Hall
You are looking at one of the last physical remnants of the now defunct "Township" form of government in Washington. A state vote in 1908 granted the formation of County Townships as semi-autonomous,…