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Klickitat County Pioneer Monument
Goldendale, WA.

Newspaper articles regarding the creation of this monument.

The Klickitat County Pioneer Monument displays the names of 292 county pioneers, and was erected on the Courthouse lawn in 1940. It is 15 feet high, weighs 18 tons, and is granite quarried from the Cascade Mountains near Snoqualmie.

The Klickitat County Valley Pioneer Association, based in Goldendale, was formed in 1930 with the intention of building a memorial to honor the members' families. The list of names on the monument's four sides reads like a "who's who" of the early white settlers in central and eastern Klickitat County.

The association's monument committee was formed in 1937, with the dedication of the monument occurring October 12, 1940. J.E. Stone, Superior Court Judge for Klickitat, Skamania and Cowlitz counties, gave the dedication speech.

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