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The Upper Columbia River is rich in cultural and natural significance.
For more than 9000 years, people have gathered along the banks of the river
to fish and trade with each other. Missionaries and explorers for the Hudson
Bay Company and the Northwest Trading Company mapped the area and developed
relationships with the tribes, which lived here. In 1941, damming of the
Columbia River as part of the Columbia River Basin project created a 130-mile
long lake. Named for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the lake is now the
largest recreation feature in the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area.
Opportunities for boating, fishing, swimming, camping, canoeing and visiting
historic Fort Spokane and St. Paul's Mission are highlights of visiting
Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area.
Formed by Grand Coulee Dam (part of the Columbia River Basin Project), 130-mile-long
Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake is the principal recreation feature here. Fort
Spokane, situated at the confluence of the Columbia and Spokane rivers,
was one of the last frontier forts built in the West (1880) and vividly
illustrates changes in government policy towards Indian tribes at the turn
of the century.
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