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Puget Sound is an inland marine complex of waterways from the Pacific Ocean, connected to the rest of the Pacific by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It branches out from Admiralty Inlet and Deception Pass in the north to Olympia, Washington in the south. The surrounding land partially overlaps the Seattle metropolitan area, home to about 4 million people.

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Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is 96 miles (154 km) south of Seattle and 53 miles (85 km) northeast of Portland, Oregon. Mount St. Helens takes its English name from the British diplomat Lord St Helens, a friend of explorer George Vancouver who made a survey of the area in the late 18th century. The volcano is located in the Cascade Range and is part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, a segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire that includes over 160 active volcanoes. This volcano is well known for its ash explosions and pyroclastic flows.

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The Murray Morgan lift bridge was built in 1913 in Tacoma, Washington, to connect downtown to the tideflats. It was rebuilt in 1957 and used to route Washington Highway 509 through the tideflats. Known by many names throught its life; the City Waterway bridge, the 11th Street Bridge, Highway 509 bridge and finally the Murray Morgan, the bridge was bypassed in the late 1990's when Washington 509 was routed around the edge of the tideflats. Unfortunately, the bridge has reached the end of its life. Years of use and neglect have severely limited its capacity. Routing traffic away from the bridge has dimished its importance. The state and WSDOT want to remove the bridge as the cost to effectively rebuild it is very high. However, two things have kept the bridge around. All of Tacoma and especially the Foss Waterway have been undergoing a renaissance. Therefore, the bridge is rapidly becoming an important link between downtown and the tideflats. Secondly, the bridge has become an icon for Tacoma, serving as both a reminder of its industrial past and as a work of art in its ownself. A grassroots effort was begun to save the bridge with some success: the bridge was originally scheduled to be torn down in 2006.

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The National Sanctuary of our Sorrowful Mother, popularly known as The Grotto, is a Catholic sanctuary on Sandy Boulevard at Northeast 85th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, United States, set both at the foot of and on top of a cliff. A large meditation hall whose main chamber is at clifftop level extends down to the foot of the cliff; the cross on the hall is visible many miles away. In addition to a church, there are several thousand feet of trails, including a trail of the Stations of the Cross, along which the faithful may pass in contemplation.

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Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city in and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Seattle, 31 miles (50 km) northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 193,556 at the 2000 census, while the Census Bureau estimated its population at 196,532 in 2006. Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third largest in the state.

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Ilwaco was officially incorporated on December 16, 1890. A narrow gauge railway, Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Co, ran for over thirty years.

The railroad ran north up First Street in Ilwaco. A published photo shows the railroad's Ilwaco facilities, including a gallows turntable and elevated watering trough, were located on the southwest corner of the intersection of First and Spruce streets. The depot was built nearby on Spruce Street. A siding was built for the Ilwaco Mill and Lumber Company. A published photo shows the passenger depot on the west side of First Street, at a point 14.8 miles (23.8 km) from the Ilwaco Depot to Nahcotta. The Ilwaco freight depot was in a different building. The freight depot survived to modern times, and has been relocated to became part of the Ilwaco Heritage Museum.

The train ran out on the dock in Ilwaco. Floating logs were stored behind log booms on the west side of the Ilwaco dock. At some point after 1890, First Street had been covered with wooden planks, and remained so until 1916, when it was paved over. By 1915, a published photo shows many more businesses along First Street.

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