The purpose of this area is to provide a place for people to share their historic pictures of the Benton County, Washington area. If you have any pictures you would like to share of the area or the people who lived here just send them to Susan Davis Faulkner. Please try to make the pictures as compact as possible to save space in my mailbox (saving them as .jpeg files is usually the best way to send larger files)
I would prefer that pictures are in .gif, .bmp, .jpg or .jpeg format as these are the easiest for me to open.

• Picture of Kennewick High School Sophomore class of 1933-34 photo courtesy of Greg
  The only identified person in the picture is Mary Thresher, the blonde girl with glasses in the middle, 4th girl to the right of the girl wearing the K on her sweatshirt.

• Photo taken in Kennewick, WA abt 1910 photo courtesy of Greg
  The only identified people in the picture are: first girl, botton row (kind of behind second girl), Josephine Evenson, first girl back row, Anna Evenson, sister of Josephine.

• Hotel Kennewick photo courtesy of Greg

• Main Street Kennewick about 1920 photo courtesy of Greg

• Picture of residential section of Kennewick, WA also about 1920 photo courtesy of Greg

• Kennewick Land Company 1906 This is a picture of Herbert Austin Hover (H.A.) and his brother Aaron Hampton Hover dated 1906. H. A. was said to have been a millionaire, but where he made his millions is unknown. He was a land developer, had oil wells, and later sold real estate. He also crossed the United States and Europe in a Maxwell in 1908. Aaron had a steam freighter business in Washington, and was probably a land developer as well. Aaron has "Aron 26" and an arrow below him, and Herbert is the one that says "at 37" below him. The others in the photo are unknown to me. The photo was a little faded. Herbert Austin Hover, b. March 09, 1868, Madisonville, Lake, Ohio; d. November 16, 1951, St. Petersburg Beach, Pinellas Co., Florida Aaron Hampton Hover b. January 15, 1879, Brooklyn, Kings, New York; d. July 07, 1947, Ovett, Jones Co., Mississippi. Courtesy of Ms. Johnson

• Victor Hotel of Prosser, Washington Charles E. and Maria Jane (Copeland) Chesley came to Prosser sometime in the early 1900's. The 1910 census shows them as manager and cook of a hotel. Their great-granddaughter, Mollie Patterson, found this picture among their belongings and believes this to be the hotel they managed. Photo courtesy of Mollie Patterson

• Richland Elementary School Pictures John R. O'Meara was the Principal of Richland Elementary School from 1922 through 1926. His grand-daughter, Ann Bergstrom, now shares class pictures from that time. See the pictures and names of students. Photos courtesy of Ann Bergstrom

• Postcard of Prosser, Washington Probably circa 1930. Photos courtesy of Patt Bivans

• Evergreen Cemetery Pictures General pictures of Evergreen Cemetery with a few tombstone shots. Also postcards from Pasco Naval Air Station

• Franklin County Pictures Check out these pictures of neighboring Franklin County, Washington.