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Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA



 


Notizen:
Wikipedia 2016:

Moses Lake is a city in Grant County, Washington, United States. The population was 20,366 as of the 2010 census. Moses Lake is the largest city in Grant County.

History:

Before the construction of Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River in 1941 and Larson Air Base in 1942 the area was largely barren. Native Americans knew the area as Houaph, which meant willow. Chief Moses was leader of the Sinkiuse tribe from 1859 to 1899, and was forced to negotiate with white settlers who began to settle in the area in the 1880s. Under pressure from the government, Chief Moses traded the Columbia Basin land for a reservation that stretched from Lake Chelan north to the Canada–US border. The government later traded again for what is now the Colville Indian Reservation.

The new settlers named the lake in honor of the chief. The city was originally named Neppel, after a town in Germany where one of the original settlers had lived. The first settlers established fisheries and farms — some of the first exported items were carp, jackrabbits and fruit — but irrigation attempts failed and settlers left at about the same rate as they came. When the town was incorporated and renamed Moses Lake in 1938, the population was estimated at 301 people.

Arrival of the air base in 1942 and irrigation water pumped from Grand Coulee Dam in 1955 offered newcomers a reason and a way to settle in an area that previously had little to offer other than good fishing and a place to water sheep and cattle. Moses Lake was quickly transformed into a hub for a vast region where transportation, agriculture and recreation came together.

The air base was built to train World War II pilots to fly the P-38 Lightning and B-17 Flying Fortress, two planes that were essential to the war effort. The base was closed after the war ended, but reopened in 1948 as a U.S. Air Force base and test area for Boeing’s B-47 Stratojet and B-50 Superfortress.

The B-47 tests led to development of modern commercial jetliners still used today. Fighter jets were stationed there to protect Grand Coulee Dam to the north and the Hanford site to the south. Boeing still uses the airport as a test and evaluation facility for its aircraft. Japan Airlines used the airport as a training area from November 1968 until March 2009. The old air base is now owned by the Port of Moses Lake and is home to Grant County International Airport, Big Bend Community College and several businesses. Farmers, meanwhile, had developed new methods to irrigate water from the lake and from the Columbia River and began planting expansive irrigated acreage. When the Columbia Basin Project was completed in the mid-1950s, farms expanded by thousands of acres, growing potatoes, corn, onions, carrots and sugar beets.

In little more than a decade, Moses Lake’s population grew from 300 to 2,679 in 1950. Today, the population is 21,419 (2014 estimate).

Ort : Geographische Breite: 47.1301417, Geographische Länge: -119.27807710000002


Geburt

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Geburt    Personen-Kennung 
1 Kemmerer, Fern Elizabeth  11 Jan 1923Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I88231
2 Kemmerer, Louis George  10 Jan 1922Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I88221

Tod

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Tod    Personen-Kennung 
1 Giese, Manford Laverne  10 Okt 1995Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I159397
2 Greenwalt, Yetta  21 Jun 2004Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I80047
3 Gross, Lorina  28 Aug 2016Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I235098
4 Hochstetter, Johann Gottlieb  17 Jun 1918Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I152279
5 Jeske, Magdalena  11 Jun 1975Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I159409
6 Kallenberger, Ester Ella  25 Jul 1981Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I5318
7 Kemmerer, Fern Elizabeth  9 Feb 2003Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I88231
8 Kessel, Katharina  13 Apr 1979Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I174416
9 Kisler, Clarence  28 Okt 1977Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I77046
10 Lobe, Esther Lorraine  29 Jan 1992Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I76611
11 Melcher, Carl R.  14 Jun 2004Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I80048
12 Oster, Jacob C. Jr.  Aug 1975Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I159434
13 Schimke, Simon  17 Jan 2007Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I174406
14 Schlimmer, Conrad Emil  Datum unbekanntMoses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I8780
15 Stelzer, Sarah  20 Jan 1999Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I76602
16 Trautmann, John  3 Mrz 1980Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I80033
17 Trautmann, Katherine - wife of  14 Jul 1979Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I80034
18 Zimbelman, Donald Gus  18 Jul 2017Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I2113

Beerdigung

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Beerdigung    Personen-Kennung 
1 Hochstetter, Johann Gottlieb  Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I152279
2 Huether, Paul  Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I236144
3 Rennich, Jakob  Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA I172392