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    Whitman Mission

    National Historic Site Washington

Soil Profile of Irrigation Ditch

Cross section of soil layers
Mission grounds - 1960. Profile of Whitman's irrigation ditch - exposed in Trench #5 by Schumacher (archaeologist at Whitman National Monument / Whitman Mission National Historic Site during the 1960's) when digging for location of Blacksmith Shop.
[C-3-19, Negative #459]
NPS photo
 

Did You Know?

picture of Great Basin Wild Rye Grass

Great Basin Wild Rye Grass is part of the natural landscape at Whitman Mission. The name Waiilatpu, meaning place of rye grass, was used by the people to name the mission site.