Another view of Republic, Washington - Wistful Washington

Republic is a small town (about 1000 people) in Ferry County, NE Washington. I lived there for almost a year 2015-2016. It's a beautiful, but semi-arid area that I quickly grew to love.

The town has everything you need including Anderson's grocery store, Mom & Pop's Discount grocery (I loved that store), hardware stores, a feed store, thrift stores, a library, a couple of motels, a laundromat. Of course, it also has a park, a couple of museums, a few churches and a school. There are even a couple of annual festivals - one for the winter and one for the summer. If you need more shopping, then Colville is about an hour and a half to the east. (Even Grand Forks in Canada is about an hour to the north.) But for most day-to-day living, Republic has everything one needs.

Apparently, Republic began its life as a gold mining settlement. They originally wanted to call it Eureka after the creek where the gold was found. The name was rejected because of naming conflict - not with Eureka, California, but with one in Clark County, Washington (which I've never heard of, despite living there for three years!)

Here are some of the pictures I took there when I visited back in August.

Read more about Republic, Washington on Wikipedia and on the city site.

Photos taken by myself in August, 2019 with my Pentax K30.

Previous issues of Wistful Washington

Cascade Mountains

Kangaroo Ridge from Washington Pass

Ferry County, Washington

A View of Republic ,

Olympic Peninsula, Washington

Destruction Island , Evening Pacific View , Powerful Pacific , Ruby Beach

The Puget Sound

Crossing Puget Sound , Deception Pass Bridge and State Park , Waiting for the Ferry , Winter Baker

Washington Flora and Fauna

Salal - Gaultheria Shallon

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