Cheney Main Street

ID: 4820 ~ Source: Eastern Washington University Library Archives ~ Creator: Unknown ~ Date: 1898
This file appears in: Cheney Fire of 1889
Cheney Main Street

A view of Main Street in Cheney looking west in 1898, not even a decade after the devastating fire of 1889.

This file appears in: Cheney Fire of 1889

By Lauren Kuharski
In 1889 Cheney was a young and fast-growing town, actively competing with nearby Spokane to be the largest city in the region. Cheney’s ambitions were delivered a devastating blow on April 18th of that year. A fire began in the early morning at…