Trains, Tribes, and Towns

This exhibit was made possible through support from:
City of Pasco ∙ Franklin County Commissioners ∙ UPS Store-Pasco ∙ Marilynn & Dave Baker

Northern Pacific Railroad Construction, 1870-2020
A Franklin County Museum Sesquicentennial Exhibit

William Mackay, Railroad Parade (1940 New York World’s Fair Poster)
Franklin County Historical Museum Collection

The steam locomotive Minnetonka shown above was the original NPRR engine sent to construct the historic line across the Pacific Northwest. After completion of the route in the 1880s, the Minnetonka operated out of the Pasco, Washington, railyard until restoration in the 1970s for exhibit at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Eagan, Minnesota.

This exhibit made possible through support from
City of Pasco ∙ Franklin County Commissioners ∙ UPS Store-Pasco ∙ Marilynn & Dave Baker
Franklin County Historical Society Museum Photograph Collection
Italicized text quotations from the writings of novelist Zane Grey

Museum Location

305 N 4th Ave.
Pasco, WA 99301

Hours

Wed. – Fri.: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Sat.: 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Closed State & Federal Holidays

Phone Number

509.547.3714

Marmes Man Exhibit

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The Clement-Hooks Gallery of Rural Art

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John Mullan’s Northern Overland Road & Other Early Frontier Transportation Routes

Irrepressible, young Lt. John Mullan conceived of an overland route across the northern Rocky Mountains as early as the spring of 1854 after being assigned the previous year as a topographical engineer to Washington Territorial Governor...