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Go >The festival, which features a day of games and entertainment in Fort Borst Park, culminates with a parade through downtown Centralia and a fireworks extravaganza at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds, Chehalis.
Go >Krazy Daze features a car show, numerous arts and food vendors, a kids’ parade and live entertainment.
Go >Winlock became the first incorporated city in the county in 1873, as the railroad began service.
Go >Napavine, just south of Chehalis, is the third most-populated incorporated city in Lewis County.
Go >Toledo, located a few miles off of Interstate 5 at exit 63, was built on the bank of the Cowlitz River and became populous in the 1880s and 1890s.
Go >Mossyrock was named in 1852 for the mossy crag that rose 200 feet above the east end of Klickitat Prairie. The spot was an early trading post on the Cowlitz River.
Go >Out-of-towners literally take over the tiny East Lewis County community of Packwood twice each year.
Go >What began in the late 1930s as a “friendly competition” between men who worked in the woods has grown to a four-day festival.
Go >Oakville first attracted settlers as a logging town in the mid-1800s, not long after timber men from the East Coast visited the Pacific Northwest.
Go >For Tenino, Oregon Trail Days is both its biggest festival and a reminder of its long, storied history.
Go >The town of Rochester, on the Upper Chehalis River, is said to have gotten its name in 1890 by a pioneer woman named Gaily Fleming, originally from Rochester, Indiana.
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