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Sunnyside, Yakima County, Washington
"Sunnyside, a town in
the eastern part of Yakima County. Mr. E.F. Blaine writes that the
town 'was laid out by Walter N. Granger in 1893. Before the
establishment of this townsite the big canal, known as the Sunnyside
Canal, had been started. As the land under the Sunnyside Canal
slopes toward the midday sun, the canal and district were named
Sunnyside and Mr. Granger, believing that Sunnyside would be the
principal town of the new district, called the town Sunnyside.'
Another version of the origin of the name for the district is given
by S.J. Lowe who says that in 1882, he, with Joe Stephenson, Andy
McDaniels and one of the Nelsons, went exploring for bunch-grass hay
in October, 1882. Lowe says that he, on that trip, conferred the
name Sunnyside. On returning, they met J.M. Adams, publisher of the
Signal, who at that time recorded the new name in his
newspaper." (Yakima Herald, copied in the Washington Historical
Quarterly, Volume XIII.)
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