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Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA

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Wenatchee is a city located in north-central Washington and is the largest city and county seat of Chelan County, Washington, United States. The population within the city limits in 2010 was 31,925. The population was 33,070 at 2014 Estimate from Office of Financial Management. Located at the confluence of the Columbia and Wenatchee rivers near the eastern foothills of the Cascade Range, Wenatchee lies on the western side of the Columbia River, across from the city of East Wenatchee. The Columbia River forms the boundary between Chelan and Douglas County. Wenatchee is the principal city of the "Wenatchee–East Wenatchee, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area", which encompasses all of Chelan and Douglas counties (total population around 110,884). However, the 'Wenatchee Valley Area' generally refers to the land between Rocky Reach and Rock Island Dam on both banks of the Columbia, which includes East Wenatchee, Rock Island, and Malaga.

The city was named for the nearby Wenatchi Indian tribe. The name is a Sahaptin word that means "river which comes from canyons" or "robe of the rainbow". Awenatchela means "people at the source ". The city of Wenatchee shares its name with the Wenatchee River, Lake Wenatchee and the Wenatchee National Forest.

Wenatchee is known as the "Apple Capital of the World" due to the valley's many orchards. The city is also sometimes referred to as the "Buckle of the Power Belt of the Great Northwest". The "Power Belt of the Great Northwest" is a metaphor for the series of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River. Rock Island Dam is located nearest to the middle of this "belt", and so was labeled the "Buckle". This saying is printed at the top of every issue of Wenatchee's newspaper, the Wenatchee World, and is no longer in common use elsewhere.

History:

Archeological digs in nearby East Wenatchee have uncovered Clovis stone and bone tools dating back more than 11,000 years, indicating that people migrating during the last Ice Age spent time in the Wenatchee area. The Columbia River and nearby mountains and sagebrush steppes provided an ample supply of food. Clovis points are on display at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center and research findings are available through the Wenatchee World.

As early as 1811, fur traders from the Northwest Fur Company entered the Wenatchee valley to trap and trade with the Indians. In 1863, Father Respari, a Catholic priest, began his missionary work with the Indians. He was followed some 20 years later by Father De Grassi, who built a log cabin on the Wenatchee River near the present town of Cashmere. Throughout the 19th century other white settlers came to homestead the land. Wenatchee was platted in September 1888 and officially incorporated as a city on January 7, 1893. The 1900 U.S. Census counted 451 residents.

The Great Northern Railway completed its railroad line between St. Paul, Minnesota, and Seattle in 1893. Its route through the Wenatchee Valley was significant to the development of this region. The railroad not only provided passenger travel to and from Wenatchee, but it provided for freight service for shipments of wheat, apples, and other products to out-of-state markets.

By the early 20th century the Wenatchee Commercial Club, now the Wenatchee Valley Chamber of Commerce, was advertising the region as the "Home of the World's Best Apples." The tree fruit industry provided the economic backbone for the region for a century and still is an important source of revenue. The Wenatchee Valley also boasts one of only two aluminum smelters remaining in the Northwestern United States at the ALCOA plant that expanded production in March 2011. Other growing areas of the regional economy are tourism and information technology.

On October 5, 1931, Clyde Pangborn and his copilot Hugh Herndon landed their airplane, named the Miss Veedol, in the hills of East Wenatchee, and thus became the first aviators to fly nonstop across the Pacific Ocean. The 41-hour flight from Sabishiro Beach, Misawa, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, won them the Harmon Trophy for the greatest achievement in flight of 1931.

In 1936, with the completion of Rock Island Dam, Wenatchee was protected from the summer flooding of the Columbia River, and the first of 14 hydroelectric projects on the Columbia began generating electric power. The reservoirs thus generated also made it possible to irrigate hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland in the Columbia Basin.

Geburt

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Geburt		Personen-Kennung
1	Cooksey, Mable Ruby	13 Mrz 1925	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I94161
2	Simons, Don B.	27 Jun 1925	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I2375
3	Weber, Darrell Lee	10 Sep 1940	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I3515
4	Weber, Marlene	25 Nov 1936	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I3514
5	Zimbelman, Richard G.	16 Okt 1936	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I2359

Tod

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Tod		Personen-Kennung
1	Allen, Lee Thomas	11 Mai 1999	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I159472
2	Avery, Roland Curtis	22 Mai 2000	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I97766
3	Banko, Gottfried D.	15 Feb 1939	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I140211
4	Banko, Louisa E.	28 Dez 1973	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I140308
5	Carper, Willie Washington	5 Jan 1976	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I200197
6	Doerr, Kathryn R.	29 Sep 2010	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I97765
7	English, Robert Lupton Sr.	13 Nov 2006	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I140100
8	English, Unbekannt	7 Nov 1945	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I140102
9	Esterling, Ella Regina	5 Jan 1986	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I140182
10	Fish, Eugene	23 Jul 2018	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I3505
11	Green, Philmore Vilas	12 Jul 1972	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I140183
12	Groß, Emilie	3 Sep 1955	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I140304
13	Gumke, Elsie	21 Jan 2013	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I173840
14	Hauff, Johnnie	2 Feb 1968	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I140105
15	Hieb, Martha	15 Aug 1985	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I74785
16	Hildebrand, Alfred	17 Mrz 1974	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I140103
17	Hildebrand, Ella Melvina	20 Jan 2002	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I140099
18	Hildebrand, Elta M.	11 Apr 1993	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I140104
19	Hildebrand, Reinhold F.	14 Sep 1960	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I140097
20	Hopp, Conrad H. Jr.	30 Okt 1954	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I76983
21	Kison, Ilene	25 Nov 1961	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I119663
22	Klein, Martha	16 Dez 1997	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I219664
23	Lippert, George Edmond	19 Mrz 1982	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I173841
24	Lippert, Larry Georg	2 Jul 2009	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I173843
25	McCreary, Ross Chester	31 Mai 1971	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I42986
26	McDonald, Dewey Charles	11 Apr 2009	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I88232
27	Newell, Eugene Abner	5 Nov 1942	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I94251
28	Perry, Nathan W.	27 Jul 1953	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I94183
29	Rahl, Katharina	15 Jun 1928	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I153271
30	Schoch, Robert Marion	10 Feb 1940	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I32608
31	Schorzman, Anne C.	27 Sep 1972	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I159471
32	Schultz, Margaret S.	13 Sep 1968	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I140098
33	Shelton, Reamy William	23 Jan 2003	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I94440
34	Soule, Edna Evelyn	4 Dez 1984	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I265610
35	Truitt, Charles Wilbur	23 Mai 2007	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I140194
36	Woehl, Dena	16 Okt 2003	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I88382
37	Wright, Gus	30 Mai 2004	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I256998
38	Zimbelman, Leola Catherine	18 Jul 2001	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I3508

Beerdigung

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Beerdigung		Personen-Kennung
1	Bich, Jacob J.	13 Mai 1965	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I76438
2	Cochran, Ella Jane		Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I94184
3	Newell, Eugene Abner		Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I94251
4	Perry, Nathan W.		Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I94183
5	Winter, Leontina	16 Jul 1988	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	I76439

Eheschließung

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	Familie	Eheschließung		Familien-Kennung
1	Gilligham / Zimbelman	25 Okt 1933	Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington, USA	F1157