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Adrian Atwood Bacon - "The placed was named by the railroad builders in 1900. The name was given as a joke, but still remains."
Barham Bassett Junction Beverly - "a town in Grant County. The name was chosen from Beverly, Massachusetts, by H.R. Williams, vice-president of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, who introduced many eastern names along the western line." Cascade Valley Corfu Coulee City -- "It was so named in 1889 because it is situated in Grand Coulee." Crater Delano Heights Desert Aire Dry Falls Junction East Heights Electric City Ephrata - "a town in the central part of Grant County, of which it is the county seat. The name was given by the Great Northern Railway surveyors, as at that time the only fruit orchard in that vicinity was located there. It is supposed that the original meaning of the word is fruit region or fertile ground. The name is Biblical. Ephrata is the ancient name for Bethlehem, five miles south of Jerusalem. It is the birthplace of Jesus. The ancient city is mentioned by the name of Ephrata three times in the Bible." Fordair George Gloyd Grand Coulee Hanson Hartline - "a town in the northwestern part of Grant County. The first settlement was named Parnell for an old settler. Later a townsite was selected on land sold for the purpose by John Hartline, another old settler, and the town was named for him." Jericho - "a town in the southern part of Grant County, named by the railroad officials after the famous city in Palestine." Laing Lakeview Low gap Mae - "a postoffice, four miles west of Moses Lake, in Grant County,
named by J.B. Lee on February 1, 1907, in honor of Mrs. Mae Shoemaker, the first postmistress." Mattawa McDonald Mitchell Moses Lake Naylor Odair Osborne Quincy Ritell Royal City Ruff - "a town in the eastern part of Grant County, named for Gotfred Ruff, on whose property the town was to have been located." Schwana Sieler Smyrna - "in the southern part of Grant County, named by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company after the port on the Aegean Sea." Soap Lake Stratford Tiflis - "a town in the southeastern part of Grant County, was named after the Trans-Caucasian town, some of the settlers having come from that region." Trinidad Wanapum Village Warden - "a town in the southeastern part of Grant County, was named for a heavy stockholder in the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company." Westlake Wheeler - "a town in the central part of Grant County, got its name from an older town four miles southeast of the present town."
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