History · Pateros · established 1886

Pateros’s history is mostly unwritten

The public archives hold only 4 old photos of Pateros. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

1886established

4old photos & papers

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What stands out about Pateros’s past

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A history waiting to be writtenOnly 4 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.

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Decades since 1900 with photos

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1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.

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The story

How Pateros came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Pateros.

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Pateros was originally established as Ive's Landing in around 1886 by Lee Ives. Ives began farming the area near the confluence of the Methow and Columbia Rivers, which was populated by a small band of Native Americans and around 20 Chinese miners. Ives also built an 18-room hotel at the town site and operated a ferry crossing. The first post office was built in 1895.

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By decade

Pateros, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1910s4 items

c. 1910Hotel ives

c. 1915Garage, Pateros, Washington, ca. 1915

c. 1915Standard Oil Co., Pateros, Washington, ca. 1915

Street scene showing automobiles and a garage, Pateros, Washington, ca. 1915

c. 1915Street scene showing automobiles and a garage, Patero…

1920s–1990snothing yet

Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Today2 recent

2008Pateros and Lake

2004WAMap-doton-Pateros

Then & now

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Retake this viewHotel ives, c. 1910

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