Then and now: Post Falls dam
Just as important to early city growth were hardy pioneers like Frederick Post, a German immigrant with training as a millwright. After stops in Illinois, Portland and San Francisco, he arrived and settled in Idaho in 1871. He brought equipment to build a lumber mill and a flour mill. Post started a ranch in the Rathdrum area and began negotiating with the Coeur d’Alene Indians. Read the story here.
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1913 – This is the Washington Water Power Co. powerhouse on the middle channel of the Spokane River at Post Falls. This was the site where pioneer Frederick Post built a flour mill. Post also built a lumber mill on the larger north channel of the river. Washington Water Power, now called Avista, took over Post’s property on the river in 1902.
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2019: The historic Avista power generation plant on the middle channel of the Spokane River at Post Falls was completed by Washington Water Power Company in 1906. It replaced Frederick Post’s flour mill in the same location. The river flows around two islands, called the Avista Islands (formerly the WWP Islands), and is controlled by dams on the three channels around those islands.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
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