The Klickitat County Agriculturist. Goldendale, WA., August 5, 1921, page 3

THE PASSING OF GRANDDALLES CITY

     O.D. Taylor, who owned land on the north bank of the Columbia river, near the Big Eddy, a number of years ago undertook to establish a town there, but afterward moved the townsite to the present Grand Dalles location, which is just west of the site of the Rockland.
     Four hundred acres were platted in 1890, but for various reasons, says The Dalles Chronicle, his project failed.
     Buildings for factories were erected and later were used for storing farm machinery and housing hay and cattle. These buildings burned eventually.
     This new townsite was called North Dalles, but when a post office was established, through the recommendations of J.F. Rorick, and O.D. Taylor, the more pretentious name of Grand Dalles was used.
     In 1918 Leon W. Curtiss, son of the late Alanzo H. Curtiss petitioned the Klickitat county commissioners court for the vacation of the town plat of the Grand Dalles.
     The petition was granted, -- and so Grand Dalles passed off the map.

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