The town was originally founded in 1885 by Indian Postmaster Alexander McCredy as a railroad stop on the Northern Pacific Railroad as Simcoe, Washington. The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 made it legal for the Yakama Indian Nation to sell their lands, and began to draw settlers into the area. With the construction of the Irwin Canal in 1896, agriculture became the big business in town. In the early 1900s, McCredy and George Rankin established the Wapato Development Company and laid out the town site. They established the town's first bank and began selling lots. In response to persistent confusion with nearby Fort Simcoe, the town changed its name to Wapato in 1903. The 1906 Jones Act further encouraged Anglos to purchase land from the Yakamas. Wapato was officially incorporated on September 16, 1908 with a population of around 300 people.
As early as 1905, many Japanese people also began to migrate to the city, mainly from Hawaii. From 1916 to 1918, "Japanese Town" developed around present-day West 2nd Street. With more than 1000 Japanese then living in the Yakima Valley, the community soon became a center of Washington's Japanese population, second only to Seattle. The Yakima Buddhist Bussei Kaikan (1936–1941), on West 2nd Street, was an architecturally noteworthy building built by members of the congregation. Unfortunately it was not to last, as Roosevelt'sExecutive Order 9066 forced the Japanese to evacuate from Wapato in 1942, many residents headed for internment camps.
Betty went through the Depression and most of WWII as a schoolgirl in Wapato, Washington, being proud that she was the only one in her family to graduate from high school ...Ritchie, also from Wapato, they married, having an only child, Gary, in1945.
“When we got married 63 years ago, we moved to Cusick, Washington,” he said ... “I built his crib and highchair,” Joe said ... He’d honed his skills as a kid, growing up in Wapato, Washington ... “I give a lot of credit to my upbringing in Wapato.”.
Debra Manjarrez, a Yakima business owner, has announced her plans to run as a Republican for the WashingtonState House of Representatives. She currently resides in Wapato and will be running for a seat in the 14th District, which includes ....
More than 600 teachers from around the state were nominated. Ten will be selected to receive the award ... in 2016 and taught for three years in the Wapato School District in the state of Washington before he and his wife, Marinette, came to Freeport.
In an act of great courage, policemen in Tacoma, Washington raced into the freezing cold waters of Wapato Lake to save a teenager from certain death ... to stay on top of the water in Wapato Lake.
Wapato will need to keep up the hot shooting if they’re to do what only one other team, and none from Washington, has done – beat reigning champion and top-seeded Nooksack Valley and Washington recruit Devin Coppinger.
The Wapato High School girls basketball team has been close to breaking through for the school’s second Class 1A title in the sport the last couple of seasons ... WASHINGTON BOYS BASKETBALL SCORES .
The group is a product of Mending Wings, a nonprofit agency based in the Yakama Nation in Wapato, Washington... Washington, that works to empower Native American youth and revitalize and retain culture.
For anyWashington farmer, 2020 was a desperate year ... In January 2022, the sale of the 1,500acre Inaba Produce Farms near Wapato to the Yakama Nation broke fresh ground in this new era of farming in Washington state.
For anyWashington farmer, 2020 was a desperate year ... In January 2022, the sale of the 1,500acre Inaba Produce Farms near Wapato to the Yakama Nation broke fresh ground in this new era of farming in Washington state.
Oct. 30—A Yakima man injured Wednesday in a crash north of Wapato has died from his injuries, the WashingtonState Patrol reported. Louie H. Adcock, 85, died Sunday, according to a news release. He died in King County after being ... .
Sunnyside Daily Sun
18 Jun 2024
Sunnyside Daily Sun
18 Jun 2024