From the Hills of Columbia

In many cases, trying to fix the definition of the word beauty, specific words are displayed. Elegant, ether, dream, it is shining. Perhaps people can explain these words in the morning lavender, the original lake of a group of birds flying overhead almost gently. Can you think of better things? Imagine: You can contact your heart again, warm, comfortable, stolen moment. Imagine a cup of coffee. Sit on the table, steamily steam and wait for you to pick it up and start the morning ritual.

Passing through the road on the Columbia River, this land is a collection of sand and rocks, with little vegetation. A few miles from Columbia to the hilly area, the prairie is full of grass. The most nutritious, all in a small rain in September, the grass begins occasionally, in October and November there is a good layer of green lawn continuing till the summer, it is mature in the lower plain around June Then it dried. It is not wet like hay, in this state autumn rain continues and it revives it, the nomad has a width of 150 miles or more in this wide valley and can bring his animal close to the mountain at any time I will. On a good lawn you can keep a good lawn in almost every climatic land and the country's hay is always better. "

In 1907, Samuel Hill purchased 5,300 acres of land along the Columbia River, dreamed of establishing Quaker rural areas, but he encountered a complication. Ten years later, Loïe Fuller, modern dance pioneer living in Paris, persuaded Hill to turn a mansion he wanted to be a museum. A close relationship with Fuller and famous French artists helped establish the core of the museum collection, including collections of over 80 works by French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Hill also transferred his own art collection to the museum.

In 1897, a group of highlanders of Colombia proposed the site of an old Belmontville located just east of Meridian Park today. In December 1898, Congress submitted a petition to Congress from Mary Foot Henderson, the wife of the Senator's predecessor. Henderson lived in a strange border castle and developed several blocks in 16th Avenue. For the new administrative building, Mrs. Henderson proposed a design by Paul Peltz, one of the two architects in the Congress library.