Kalama, Washington
Cowlitz County · Population 2,959 · Card no. 1049
A Columbia River town that was briefly the headquarters of the Northern Pacific and expected to be a great city.
- The railroad moved its terminus to Tacoma in 1873 and the boom ended.
- The town claims one of the tallest single-tree totem poles in the world.
- The name is from a Native word, possibly meaning pretty maiden.
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