Pinkney City, Washington

The John Holst homestead near Colville

Pinkney City or Pinkneyville was a small community outside of Fort Colville in what is now Stevens County (Washington). Originally named for Colonel Pinkney Lugenbeel, commander at the fort in the early 1860s. The town grew up around the fort around 1861, and eventually became Colville.^[1][2]

The civilian town just north of the military base soon became an important trading center and eventually the county seat for what would later become Stevens County. In 1863 the residents of Pinkney city petitioned the legislature to make Stevens County part of Spokane County. Instead Spokane was made part of Stevens County, and the county seat was moved (this was later split into Okanogan, Spokane and Stevens Counties). After the fort was abandoned in the 1880s, the town of Colville moved some three miles away, and Pinkney City disappeared.^[3][4][5]

See also

• Fort Colville
• Colville, Washington

References

1. ↑ http://fortwiki.com/Pinkney_Lugenbeel
2. ↑ Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, Colonel Pinkney Lugenbeel, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Historical Society, Vol 24 (1946-47), No. 4, pp. 449-459
3. ↑ http://historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7992
4. ↑ http://historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7995
5. ↑ http://www.villageprofile.com/washington/colville/02/topic.html

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Coordinates: 48°34′35″N 117°52′41″W / 48.57639°N 117.87806°W / 48.57639; -117.87806