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Richland, Washington

Benton County · Population 60,560 · Card no. 1094

A small farm settlement taken over by the federal government in 1943 to house Hanford workers, and built into a city almost overnight.

The high school teams are the Bombers, with a mushroom cloud as a logo, a legacy of the plutonium works.
Government-built alphabet houses from the 1940s still fill older neighborhoods.
The Columbia and Yakima rivers meet here.

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