The privately owned bridge carried people, horses, wagons, and automobiles it also supported two large water pipelines along its sides. In 1908, the first highway bridge to span the Columbia River opened.

Fruit orchards become one of the area's leading industries. History Īt the turn of the 20th Century irrigation projects, including the Columbia Basin Project east of the region, fostered the development of intensive agriculture in the shrub-steppe native to the region. On November 10, 2002, East Wenatchee was designated a principal city of the Wenatchee – East Wenatchee Metropolitan Statistical Area by the Office of Management and Budget. As of 2019, the Office of Financial Management estimates that the current population was 14,219.Įast Wenatchee lies on the east shore of the Columbia River, opposite Wenatchee on the west shore.

The population at the 2010 census was 13,190, a 129.1% increase on the 2000 census, having annexed much of the East Wenatchee Bench CDP. East Wenatchee is a city in Douglas County, Washington, United States.

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