On Highway 12, approximately nine miles west of Walla Walla, is a marker honoring the Frenchtown Mission Church. On the north side of the Highway, about nine miles west of Walla Walla, a granite marker and wooden cross stand on a hilltop, marking the Frenchtown Cemetery. The historic town of Waitsburg still operates under the original territorial charter. The Bruce Memorial Museum, located on Main Street, was built in 1883 by W.P. and Carolyn Bruce. Today, the eight-room house has been restored and furnished in a manner befitting the Victorian era.
Additional memorabilia is on display in a nearby carriage house.
Petroglyphs East of the town of Burbank, overlooking Ice Harbor Dam, is a special stone memorialto the Colville, Nez Perce, Umatilla, Warm Springs and Yakama tribes. Constructed in 1965 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the monument marks the site of Native American festivals and memorials. A large rock bears an early petroglyph removed from the high canyon walls of the Snake River. This historic town is near the site of the first Fort Walla Walla, a Hudson Bay Company fur trading post originally called Fort Nez Perce. A small granite monument just off Highway 12, about 31 miles west of Walla Walla, honors the fort, which is now under water.