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Battle Ground’s position as what some called “the agricultural heart of Clark County” was enhanced when the county fair moved there for the 1941 event and stayed for several years...
Jul 24, 2023 · A new book answering the question of the origins of Battle Ground’s name, “Peace Wins … at the Battle Ground 1855,” is available only at Literary Leftovers in the Battle Ground Plaza where Wilco is.
Feb 25, 2010 · The name Battle Ground, which commemorates an 1855 "battle" that never actually happened, originally referred to a site northeast of the current city, near what is today called Battle Ground Lake.
Battle Ground owes its name to an 1855 encounter between a company of Washington Volunteers from Fort Vancouver led by Captain William Strong and members of the Klickitat tribe that fled an internment near Fort Vancouver.
Battle Ground is located about 11 miles (18 km) north northeast of Vancouver, 32 miles (51 km) south southwest of Mount St. Helens. It is near the geographical center of Clark County. [15] Battle Ground is 25.5 miles (41.0 km) from Portland, Oregon, and 161 miles (259 km) from Seattle.
May 25, 2021 · “Hellfire Corner” is also the area from where Operation Dynamo was conducted. From 26 May to 4 June 1940, every boat, big and small, from this area went across the Channel to help, resulting in thousands and thousands of soldiers being landed in the harbours of Dover and Folkestone.
The Battle Ground quadrangle lies on the northeast margin of the Portland basin west of the Cascade Range (fig. 1, map sheet). Much of the quadrangle consists of the Fourth Plains at elevations of 200 to 400 ft (60–120 m; Mundorff, 1964).
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