Grandview Our Town 2019

Grandview Our Town

A Special Supplement to The Grandview Herald August 21, 2019

Grandview Our Town Telephone: (509) 882-3712 Fax: (509) 882-2833 Email: editor@grandviewherald.com Publisher: Fournier Family Managing Editor/ General Manager: Victoria Walker Office Manager: Suzie Zuniga Ad Sales Consultant: Dianne Buxton Production: Reba Fink Distribution & Production: Trudy Hatch Reporter: Brittnee Sanchez Member of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association Published Weekly Wednesday, by VALLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY, USUP 226.000 Periodical postage paid at Grandview, Washington 98930 Postmaster: Send change of address to: Grandview Herald 308 Division Street Grandview Washington, 98930 Copyright 2018

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What is the definition of Hometown? It is the town or city that a person is from, especially the one in which they were born and lived while they were young. A person may have been born in the Tri-Cities, but they consider Grandview to be their hometown since they have lived there most of their life.

Grandview has so much to offer and we are thrilled to bring you how it all began and where we are now as Grandview continues to thrive and grow. We hope you enjoy our publication of Grandview Our Town.

INTRODUCTION History of Grandview Washington Dated September 1, 1927

“Soon after its organization the Grandview Pioneer’s Association undertook the task set forth in its constitution, viz, “To preserve the early history of the Grandview District.” Realizing that the early local history of any community perishes with the passing of the pioneers, the Association takes great pleasure in presenting to the Grandview Public Library this brief record of the early days and progress of our community.

The Pioneer Association is grateful to all who have rendered any assistance in securing this record. Nearly every religious, fraternal, and civic organization have responded to the request for a brief review of its own organization. Especial credit is due Mrs. Ethel Fleming and Mrs. Alice C. Wentch, who were in charge of the work, and devoted unlimited time and energy to the collecting of data and the writing of manuscripts.

It is the request of the Association that this book shall remain on the stand presented with it, and not be loaned from the Library.”

This book was later reprinted by Asahel Curtis Photo Co. and split into two volumes. The Grandview Herald gratefully acknowledges the efforts of these creators of our local history.

Government

Education

Agriculture

From Territory to Township Page 3

Early Education in Grandview Page 6

Early Agriculture in Grandview Page 8

Education Continues to Grow in Grandview Page 7

Agriculture Boosts Grandview Economy Page 9

Early City Government Page 4 Current City Government Page 5

A History of Firsts Page 10

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From Territory to Township History of Grandview Washington

On November 4, 1895, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, conveyed Section 23, Township 9 N., R.23, E.W.M., the north half of which is now the town of Grandview, to the Northern Pacific Railway Co. The Railway Co. conveyed the Section to the Northern Pacific, Yakima and Kittitas Irrigation Company, the predecessor of the Washington Irrigation Co. The latter sold this land, which later comprised the townsite area, in 20, 40, and 60-acre units. The 40acre unit embracing a considerable portion of the business section of the town was sold to Albert W. Noyes. He in turn sold it to Edward McGrath on February 27, 1903, who built a home and put the land under cultivation.

The townsite was formally opened for sale of lots on May 13, 1906, and on this first day about $14,000 worth of lots were sold at prices ranging from $100 to $400 per lot.

The Grandview townsite was designed and platted by F. L. Pitman, who was at that time, Chief Engineer of the North Coast Railroad Co., (now Union Pacific) and was laid out on the ground by W. H. Dunbar, resident construction engineer, engaged in building the railroad.

The site for the town was selected as the terminus for the Sunnyside branch of the Northern Pacific Railway in the fall of 1905.

In October of that year, Elza Dean and F. L. Pitman, in the interests of the Sunnyside Railway and Granger Land Company, examined the area, and decided upon the north half of this section as a suitable terminus.

The unusually transparent air and bright sunlight of that October morning brought into clear view the snow-covered domes of Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams. These, together with the broad expanse of the valley of the Yakima, with Snipes Mountain in the foreground, presented indeed a “grand view.” This remark exchanged that morning between those two observers, was the suggestion for a name, later recommended by them and in due course adopted as suitable for the new terminal “city.” Thus, did the town and area around it acquire the name of “Grandview.”

Two men in the middle of a plot of sagebrush covered land. The man in the center of the photograph is pointing his gauntlet covered right hand towards something to the right and outside the frame. The second man wearing a light colored duster and hat seems to be heading towards the point to which the other is pointing. A few houses are visible in the far distance, a large two-story building being prominent.

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Early City Government

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In the summer of 1909, a caucas was called to nominate town officers.

Grandview was three years old. Those nominated were: • Mayor John Monroe • Treasurer A. W. Hawn • Councilmen W. F. Elser, D.O. Robertson, A. E. Fisk, C. R. Moulton and F. G. Bennett The first ordinance was passed September 27, 1909. G. D. Snowden was appointed clerk, and Ed Dawson, marshall. Ward Wheeler, of the firm Holden, Shumate, and Wheeler of Yakima, was chosen as city attorney.

October 4, 1909, Ordinance No. 5 was passed which provided for a tax to meet the current expense estimated to be $740.00. (Our 1926 Budget was estimated at $15,090.)

One of the first problems considered

was “street improvement,” which meant to clear them enough to see where they were.

During November steps were taken to provide the first wooden sidewalks of the town, one of these being on the south side of Main Street from Division to East C. St. Action was also taken preparatory to creating a cement sidewalk district in the business section.

It is interesting to note the bills passed at an early meeting.

• D. O. Robertson, Expressage, $ .55 • G. D. Snowden, Clerk salary, November, 10.00 • Ed Dawson, Marshall salary, November, 15.00 • Grandview Herald, Printing, 36.54 • C. Swain & Sons, Caring for stray range horses, 7.80 • Yakima Bindery, Supplies, 30.75 The officers appointed for the first election to be held in December, 1909, were: Inspector, W. W. Wentch; Judges, Oliver Davey and F.T. Davidson.

The following is a list of city officers for 1910.

• Mayor John Monroe • Treasurer A. W. Hawn • Clerk G. D. Snowden • Councilmen F. G. Bennett W. F. Elser A. E. Fisk, D. O. Robertson and C. R. Moulton • Marshall & St. Commissioner Ed Dawson • Police Judge R. J. Venom Several important events took place this year. In June permission was given the Benton Independent Telephone Company to build in the town. At the September twelfth meeting Dr. McMakin was appointed as health officer.

The estimated expenses for the coming year were $2,215. At a special election held to determine whether or not intoxicating liquor should be sold the result was: 12 yes, 50 no. They also decided on grading and parking of streets; and planting of shade tree along many of the streets.

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Current City Government A city manager is a top administrator, overseeing policy development, staffing and finances for a city. Serving as the town manager, part of a city manager job description is to serve as a conduit between the mayor, city council and city personnel. Since 2009, that position has been held by Cus Arteaga.

The city council is the legislative body of a town, where they establish policies for the effective and efficient delivery of municipal services to the city. In Grandview the council is divided into seven positions. Currently those positions are held by No.1-Joan Souders, No.2 Javier Rodriguez, No.3 Diana Jennings, No.4 Gaylord Brewer, No.5 and Mayor Pro-Tem Bill Moore, No.6 David Diaz, and No.7 Mike Everett. Of these seven positions, the council seats of Everett, Diaz, Brewer, Jennings, and Moore will become open to anyone interested in running for election to fill those, if they so choose.

At the Nov. 27, 2018 city council meeting, Gloria Mendoza was appointed as the new mayor of Grandview by a unanimous vote.

Beginning in 2019, councilwoman Mendoza vacated her position to take on her new role as Grandview’s first Latina mayor. The mayor’s responsibilities are primarily to preside at council meetings and to act as head of the city for ceremonial purposes and for purposes of military law. The mayor votes as a councilmember and does not have any veto power The Committee-of-the-Whole shall meet on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each and every month at 6:00 p.m., and if determined necessary on the third Tuesday of each and every month at 6 p.m., except if at any time the Committee-of-the-Whole meeting falls on a holiday, the Committee shall meet on the next business day at the same hour. The regular meetings

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Mayor Gloria Mendoza is pictured in the center here, with members of the current City Council, accepting the Complete Streets award from the Washington State Transportation Improvement Board. Not pictured is Dianne Jennings.

of the Council shall be held on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each and every month at the hour of 7 p.m.; provided, that regular meetings shall be held on the next succeeding day when the meeting day is a stateestablished holiday. All meetings of the City Council are held in the City Hall located at 207 West Second Street in the City, unless Council at a previous meeting decides to hold them elsewhere.

The last ordinance presented

by City Attorney Quinn Plant, was passed at June 25 City Council meeting. That was Ordinance No. 2019-12 permitting commercial/ downtown business establishments to use public sidewalks as a seating area and adding a new chapter to the Grandview Municipal Code entitled 12.10-Obstructing Streets and Sidewalks.

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History of Grandview Washington

Bethany School was built in 1903 and located just south of the Mains farm.

When we think of our splendid schools—and Grandview is justly proud of them—how interesting to turn our thoughts back to the beginning in 1894; just a tiny group of children in an old deserted shack.

It was in the Bethany and Euclid communities that the first steps were taken toward founding what is now the consolidated school system of District No. 8. …A list of school supplies included twelve double desks, a cloth blackboard, 3x10, a dictionary, etcThe other expenses incurred in starting that first school were: hardware, $12.50; fuel, $6.95; window, $3.85. At the close of the term the school supplies were hauled and stored for the vacation at a cost of one dollar. …In August 1901, the district attempted to vote $600 bonds for a schoolhouse and furniture but lost. Another attempt the following

year resulted in bonds for $1000 being voted. The site chosen for the new building was the N. W. corner of section 35, which was graded and leveled at a cost of $35Kenyon and Milligan’s bid of $795 for the building contract, was the one accepted by the directors, V. V. Hickox, Fred Mideke and Harry Lockey; clerk, C. R. Gillett. The furniture and blackboards were purchased at a cost of $221.90 and early in 1903 the school was settled in its new home.

The Bethany schoolhouse was built the same year [1903] just south of the Mains farm, midway of the north line of Section 15, near the railway crossing. This building was moved in 1907 to the site where it now stands.

In the fall of 1906 work was started on a two-story four- room frame building, located in Block G, in Grandview, and intended as a High School for the consolidated district.

Of [the first] class of seven High School students, three members, viz, Edward Mains, Bessie Smith, and Ethel Melton, together with Urba Thomas, who entered later, were the first graduates from Grandview High School—the class of 1910.

The building was soon overcrowded with pupils of all grades, thus making it necessary to

build an addition in 1909, equal in size to the original building.

In 1918 a two-story brick High School building was completed in the same block thus releasing the Central Building for the grades alone. In 1920 the Lincoln Grade School building, a cement block structure, was erected just north of the O.W.R.&N. railroad tracks in the east part of town.

The burning of the Old Central School in August 1924, called for the immediate erection of a new grade building which was built of brick, was one story in height, and was completed in the early spring of 1925. …Mr. F. G. Bennett was elected as our first Superintendent in 1908,

serving until 1913. He was followed

by F. J. Brown who was with us until 1917. A. C. Kellogg served from 1917 to 1924. The work was then taken up

by H. K. Ramaley, who had already given up seven years of service as principal of the High School. Mr. Ramaley served as Superintendent until 1927.

As a majority of High Schools run on an Associated Student Body basis, Grandview organized such a body in September 1921, with Lionel Fish as President; Glen Lowe, Vice President, and Mabel Chrestenson, Secretary-Treasurer.

Many graduates have gone out from our High School into the world, making enviable records for themselves.

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Education Continues to Grow in Grandview In 2017, Grandview voters approved a $42 million bond to build a new high school and construction began in the fall of 2018. The current building holds only 450 students, but the student population at Grandview High School has reached close to 1,000.

As of August 2019, it has been nine months since the Grandview School District broke ground on the new high school site. Since then the community has watched as the old practice football and soccer fields have given way to tall block walls, a massive blue crane and rows of steel girders.

The new high school can accommodate 1,200 students and will be able to easily expand; adding eight more classrooms and a few bathrooms whenever needed. The school district has said that the new high school will be two stories tall and have more science labs, art classrooms and an auditorium.

As of April, the project was reported to be on schedule and on budget. The school district anticipates that the new building will be complete and ready for students in the fall of 2020. The

Grandview School District also said that phase two of the project will include tearing down the current school and adding a parking lot and landscaping.

The second phase is expected to be completed by 2021.

T h e Grandview School District includes three elementary schools (Harriet Thompson, Arthur H. Smith, and Clarence R. McClure), a middle school and a high school. The district is noted for its excellent programs in basic education, business and agriculture.

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The district and community also support a full range of extra-curricular athletic programs.

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moved onto a new position as superintendent of Educational Service District 105, which provides programs and assistance to schools and other organizations throughout south central Washington. Chase led Grandview School District from 2004-2016.

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In addition, the Grandview area is just a short distance from a full line-up of postsecondary educational institutions. It could be said that one need not leave the comfort of their community to get a full education.

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Early Agriculture in Grandview

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Group of people, including pickers and packers, standing around a piece of machinery that sorts fruit by size. An aproned woman in foreground wraps the fruit and boxes it as it comes from various sized chutes as another looks on. Photo from 1911

When it comes to early agriculture grown in Grandview, it really comes down to the fruit trees, alfalfa and corn. For a while the early settlers were having a tough time growing crops because of the hard soil and abundance of rabbits. The rabbit population was so bad that then foreman George Chase instituted the “rabbit drives.” Several times

the whole community joined forces and marched a- cross the country in a column two miles wide, a man or boy with a shot gun every fifty feet.

Fences were resorted to, and these the rabbits dug under, jumped over or wriggled through. Of the 40,000 trees planted the first year the loss from rabbits was in the neighborhood of 5,000. After a period of twenty

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years, as the pioneer looked out over the beautiful orchards loaded with fruit, they couldn’t help but swell with pride in his part of the great development.

Of the fruits grown, it was apples that had really made an impact on the community. On November 25, 1921, Grandview won the Sweepstakes prize of $1000 at the Northwest Fruit Exposition at Seattle over nine other districts in close competition.

The exhibit was judged by the fruit, advertising value and artistic merit. The fruit, of course, was excellent; the advertising stunt was extremely unique, being the serving of individual apple pies, accompanied by a folder of recipes to each visitor.

In 1923 the World’s Champion Corn was grown by S. D. Cornell, one half mile south of Grandview. A record was made of 57,010 lbs., or 28 tons and 10 lbs., of silage corn from one acre. Half of this was Eureka Silage and half Iowa Silver Mine.

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With the maturing of the orchards, fruit packing houses were built. The first one being that of the Washington Fruit Distributors in about 1912. Later it operated as Grandview Fruit and Storage Company. Others followed, including a branch of the Yakima Valley Fruit Growers’ Association.

Another successful industry was the Alfalfa Mill of Horner and Meldrum, which was built in 1913.

Unfortunately, it was destroyed by a fire in August of 1921. In 1921 the Grandview Cold Storage Company’s plant opened for business with a storage capacity of 200 cars. Two years later, in 1923, it was enlarged to 300 cars. Besides their storage and ice business, the company operated a very large fruit packing department.

An interesting event to fruit growers in 1919, was the building of a dryer by F.M. Martin. A building belonging to the lumber yard was rebuilt and transformed into a dryer with two kilns and a production of one ton a day. In the fall of 1923, the dryer was destroyed by fire. However, in 1924 J.L. Synder erected a modern structure with one dehydrating tunnel and a capacity of two tons per day.

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The agricultural production zone associated with the Port of Grandview (POG) in Yakima County is approximately a square that extends northwest from the corner where Benton and Klickitat County meet to Toppenish. Based on data from the Washington State Department of Agriculture Cropland Data Layer there is approximately 66,783 acres of land tied

to an agricultural use in this area. This accounts for 19% of all the agricultural land in Yakima County. The POG contains a disproportionate amount of the county acres of pasture and fallowed land, cereal grains, orchards, and oilseeds. It contains less of herbs, hay/silage, and vineyards.

The agricultural area within the zone of the Port of Grandview leads Washington in terms of value of production. It is also known for its immense diversity of crops which contribute further to the state economy with downstream f o o d processing

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