Pines and Sprague
When white immigrants began settling permanently in the Spokane area in the 1870s, it was a particularly hard scrabble group who chose the rural Spokane Valley to try and eek out a meager subsistence raising vegetables, cattle, tree fruit and wheat. Land was cheap, but the tiny settlements like Dishman, Opportunity, Veradale, Greenacres and Otis Orchards were isolated far from the city lights of Spokane.
Section:Then & Now
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Northwest Room of the Spokane Public Library
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Jesse Tinsley
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