Kennewick, Washington
Benton County · Population 83,921 · Card no. 1051
The largest of the Tri-Cities, on the Columbia where the Yakima joins it, grown enormously by the Hanford project and irrigation.
- The Kennewick Man skeleton, found in the river in 1996, is among the oldest human remains found in North America and was repatriated to tribes in 2017.
- The name is from a Native word, often given as grassy place.
- Irrigation turned sagebrush into vineyards here.
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