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White Swan, Yakima County, Washington
"White Swan, a town on
the Yakima Indian Reservation, Yakima County, was named for White
Swan who was a famous chief of the Yakima tribe for sixty years. The
town is on the site of his home. Mr. A.C. Coburn started the first
store there about a year after the chief's death, August 21,
1907...A special dispatch to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer dated at
North Yakima January 13, 1910, tells about the driving of stakes and
laying out the townsite of White Swan."
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