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Ellensburg, Washington

Kittitas County · Population 18,666 · Card no. 1737

The Kittitas valley seat, a cattle and hay town that nearly became the state capital and burned to the ground in 1889 instead.

Central Washington University has been here since 1891.
The Ellensburg Rodeo, run every Labor Day since 1923, is among the largest in the Northwest.
The brick downtown dates almost entirely from the rebuild after the fire.

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