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Maryhill is named after the wife and daughter of regional icon Sam Hill, who purchased land and envisioned a community there shortly after the turn of the 20th century. Earlier the area was known as "Columbia".

Hill used his Maryhill property to build the first paved roads in the Pacific Northwest, the Maryhill Museum of Art, a monument to the World War I dead of Klickitat County in the form of a Stonehenge replica, and a planned community. Born a Quaker, Hill hoped to attract a Quaker community to eastern Washington. His plans never materialized, and the town buildings he constructed burned down several years later.

Hill intended the Stonehenge replica to express that modern warfare (like Druid sacrifices as he understood them) was a form of needless human sacrifice.

Maryhill Stonehenge Gallery

The Murray Morgan lift bridge was built in 1913 in Tacoma, Washington, to connect downtown to the tideflats. It was rebuilt in 1957 and used to route Washington Highway 509 through the tideflats. Known by many names throught its life; the City Waterway bridge, the 11th Street Bridge, Highway 509 bridge and finally the Murray Morgan, the bridge was bypassed in the late 1990's when Washington 509 was routed around the edge of the tideflats. Unfortunately, the bridge has reached the end of its life. Years of use and neglect have severely limited its capacity. Routing traffic away from the bridge has dimished its importance. The state and WSDOT want to remove the bridge as the cost to effectively rebuild it is very high. However, two things have kept the bridge around. All of Tacoma and especially the Foss Waterway have been undergoing a renaissance. Therefore, the bridge is rapidly becoming an important link between downtown and the tideflats. Secondly, the bridge has become an icon for Tacoma, serving as both a reminder of its industrial past and as a work of art in its ownself. A grassroots effort was begun to save the bridge with some success: the bridge was originally scheduled to be torn down in 2006.

TACOMA GALLERY

Satsop is known for the unfinished Satsop Nuclear Power Plant, a facility designed to house two 1250 megawatt pressurized water reactors. Construction of the Satsop Nuclear Power Plant began in 1977 and was halted in 1983 after a $961 million budget shortfall, leaving the plant 76% complete. The plant was maintained, ready for construction to be resumed, until 1994, when it was finally canceled. In 1995, a demolition plan was finalized that eventually turned the site into the Satsop Development Park. Listed among the top three office parks in Washington state for 2005 by Washington CEO Magazine, the park offers office space with high-speed, redundant telecommunications links and dedicated utility infrastructure. Because of the controversy surrounding the construction and cancellation of the power plant, the facility is known locally as "whoops", a play on its official acronym, WPPSS (Washington Public Power Supply System).

Olympic National Park is located in the U.S. state of Washington, in the Olympic Peninsula. The park can be divided into three basic regions: the Pacific coastline, the Olympic Mountains, and the temperate rainforest. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt originally created Olympic National Monument in 1909 and after Congress voted to authorize a redesignation to National Park status, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the legislation in 1938. In 1976, Olympic National Park became an International Biosphere Reserve, and in 1981 it was designated a World Heritage Site. In 1988, almost all of the Olympic Peninsula was designated as the Olympic Wilderness, further enhancing the protection of the region.

Ruby Beach is the northernmost of the southern beaches in the coastal section of Olympic National Park. It is located on Highway 101, in Jefferson County, 27 miles south of the town of Forks, Washington. Per NPS, Ruby Beach is "Not in Park but right on edge."
Like virtually all beaches on the northern coast, Ruby Beach has a tremendous amount of driftwood. It is notable for the number of sea stacks there.

101 Loop Gallery