Monday, October 19, 2015

Monitor, Washington

120 miles


Oct 19 – The road into Monitor seems grim and depressing.  I guess that’s the downside of judging a place from just one photo.  Monitor is a very small town (342 people), and the most interesting thing I can find out about is the name.  In 1902, the citizens named it after the ironclad warship USS Monitor, the famous Union battleship in the Civil War.  It’s interesting that people in the West would choose to honor that particular heritage 40 years after the war.  The citizens involved in the decision may have been veterans or children of Union sailors on that warship. 

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