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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Then and now: John Deere building

Farming innovator John Deere, born in Vermont in 1804, settled in Illinois and invented a modern plow in 1837 that pulled easily through the prairie soils of the Midwest. After Deere died in 1886, his plows and other implements were being sold in Spokane at Rasher and Kingman, a local wagon and farm implement dealer, in the 1890s. The John Deere Plow Comof Kansas City, as it was named in 1889, built a Spokane warehouse that opened in 1910 at 102 W. International Way, near the path of today’s North River Drive.

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