July 12, 2021
Sam Hill was a businessman, lawyer, railroad executive and advocate of good roads. In 1906 he laid at his own expense, ten miles of asphalt-paved Macadam road between Goldendale and the Columbia River and paved it using seven different techniques.
Sam Hill also constructed a full-size replica of Stonehenge in 1918 in honor of the World War I servicemen of Klickitat County who died during the war. Hill understood that Stonehenge in Great Britain had been used for human sacrifices and he thought it appropriate to acknowledge that people are still being sacrificed to the god of war. Local stone proved unsuitable for the construction so reinforced concrete was used.
We visited Klickitat County’s only ghost town, Goodnoe Hills. It was established in the 1870s by Chauncy and Philetus Goodnoe. Several homesteads, the school house, and hotel remain, surrounded by modern farms.
We passed the John Day dam on our drive to Goodnoe hills.
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