In this morning's newspaper was an article about the first mission established in this area. It was founded by Catholic priests who from France in 1847. We'd never heard of French missionaries in this part of the country. The mission is not far from us, so we decided to go see it this afternoon. It was established in 1852 and called the St Joseph Mission at the Ahtanum. We found out that church services are still held here on the first Sunday of each month from April to October in the building shown. Here are some pictures and a link to an article about the St Joseph Mission of Yakima.
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5285
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