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Map of Benton County, 1932 : rev. to June 9, 1937.

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Title Map of Benton County, 1932 : rev. to June 9, 1937.
Identifier http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu365 WSU 365; G4283.B4 1937 W37 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,573
Creator Washington (State). Dept. of Highways.
Date 1937 2000 - 2002
Publisher Olympia, Wash. : [s.n.]
Description 1 map ; 74 x 92 cm. Insets: Kennewick; Prosser. Blue line print. Benton County is best known as the site where the Atomic Energy Commission placed its Hanford site in 1943, six years after this map, for the continuation of the Manhattan Project and the researching and construction of the first nuclear bombs. The Hanford site occupied the portion of Benton County lying, very approximately, east of a north-south line drawn between Cold Creek and Prosser, and north of the east-west line...
Subject Benton County (Wash.) -- Maps.; Road Maps -- Washington (State)
Type Maps
Coverage United States--Washington State--Benton County
Rights Contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, for copyright information 509 335-6691
Format Original maps were photographed using a Mamiya R267 camera on 120 film and scanned at 4,000 dpi as TIFF files on a Nikon Super Cool Scan 8000. The TIFF files were converted into the MrSID format at a compression ratio of 12 to 1 using LizardTech's Geospatial Encoder 1.4 software. These MrSid files were then uploaded into the CONTENTdm database at the Washington State University Libraries. image/jpeg
Contributor Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Language English

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