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Photo blog archive for Oct. 26, 2015

MONDAY, OCT. 26, 2015

This photo,circa 1888, shows the new city waterworks, center, perched on the southwest corner of Canada Island, then called Crystal Island.

Then and Now this week: Spokane's first waterworks

Attentive readers of the Then and Now column will notice that this week's photo is a recropping of one that ran several years ago in this space.This photo, circa 1888, shows the city's first waterworks, perched on the southwest corner of Canada Island, which was then called Crystal Island, possibly named after the Crystal Laundry which sat nearby.

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