1949 Opportunity Township Ballott
This file appears in: Spokane Valley Heritage Museum/Opportunity Township Hall

A 1949 ballot found in the Spokane Valley Museum's "Opportunity Township Hall Collection." Every aspect of Opportunity's government was organized within this building, including voting and ballot counting. By 1969, all that the Opportunity Township government could do was tax Opportunity's citizens for pet licenses.
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,…