Remembering the Bicentennial around 1976, this area played an important role in the national celebration. Summer of 1975 saw the start of several wagon trains headed to Valley Forge Pennsylvania for the 1976 celebration.
One of the trains started at Peace Arch Park with a big camp at Northwest Washington Fair Grounds in Lynden. Then it headed through Bellingham camping in Cornwall Park. The horse drawn carriages went around 15 miles per day, stopping for winter as they made their way across USA. Many folks greeted the wagons as they passed through.
The one from this area went south to Portland and then followed close to the route of the Oregon Trail.
I was asking AI about this.
I had a memory of this happening during my early college years as it was getting lots of publicity, but I didn't see the wagon train itself.
Now I realize, the reason why I didn't see its passage through Bellingham was that I was back home for the summer in Pullman when the wagon trains rolled through Bellingham.
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