Our Great Parks
Whitman Mission National Historic Site
Park Type: National Historic Site
The Park is located in: WA
Address:
Superintendent, Whitman Mission National Historic Site
Rt. 2, Box 247
Walla Walla, WA 99362
Phone: 509-529-2761
Park Details:
IN 1836 Marcus and Narciss Whitman founded a mission among the Cayuse Indians in Waiilatpu [which means 'place of the people of the rye grass'] where they worked to spread the Portestant faith and established an important station on the Oregon Trail for weary travelers.
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