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About This City
Kalama is a small city located along the Columbia River in Southwest Washington's Cowlitz County. Non-Indian settlement in the area began by the 1850s. The town became the Cowlitz County seat in 1872 and things looked rosy until the Northern Pacific Railway moved its headquarters from Kalama to Tacoma -- an economic blow. Kalama was incorporated on July 16, 1890. In 1920 the Port of Kalama was established, eventually becoming one of the top five ports on the West Coast for shipping dry-bulk goods. In 1922, the county seat was transferred to Kelso -- another disappointment for the town. Floods are frequent in Kalama, and one of the worst occurred in 1948, when downtown businesses were covered under three feet of water. Another catastrophic flood occurred in 2015. Kalama boasts an array of antique shops, fishing and boating opportunities, and the tallest single-tree totem pole in the Northwest, carved for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and on display in Marine Park.).
Some believe that the name Kalama comes from a Native American word, translated variously as "beautiful," "stone," or "pretty maiden" and transcribed as either "Calamet" or "Calama." A 1902 U.S. Geological Survey bulletin suggested that Kalama might be taken from another Indian word, Okala kalama, said to mean "goose."Others maintain that the town was named for John Kalama (1814?-1870?), a carpenter from the Hawaiian island of Maui who came to the Pacific Northwest on a fur-trading vessel in the 1830s. Kalama married a Nisqually woman, Mary Martin, and worked on a farm repairing fish barrels, among other jobs. Mary died early and John remarried; he had a daughter about whom little is known and a son called Peter (1864-1947).
In 1870, Kalama was selected as a western terminus for the Northern Pacific Railway line being constructed from Duluth, Minnesota, to the Pacific Coast. The railroad purchased several lots in Kalama on which to construct terminal buildings, a round house, machine shops, offices, and other railroad-related facilities. The Lake Superior and Puget Sound Company took title to property not used by the railroad and built a three-story hotel called the Kazano House. The company also laid out the town, advertising lots to prospective buyers as far away as the United Kingdom.
Please see the rest of Kalama's history Historylink.org
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