Computers are evident in every classroom beginning with kindergarten. Education has become a partnership for the student, staff, parent, and patron in the Washington Schools. Washington has good quality health care with doctors, dentists, optometrists, and chiropractors serving the community. Two medical clinics and the Washington County Hospital continues to work diligently to bring us the best possible care by creatively meeting the challenges of today's health care needs. The quality of life is very pleasant in the splendor of the Midwest where we enjoy the beauty of all four seasons, with no pollution, no stop lights, a low crime rate, and hard-working, caring people.
Recreation is a priority in Washington.
A spacious park provides a picnic area, play area, fairgrounds, rodeo arena, swimming pool, tennis court, basketball court, sand volleyball court, two softball diamonds, small car race track, and RV parking with hook-ups. The City of Washington offers a 27-acre industrial park with incentives. However, most of the thousands of gold seekers traveled across Washington County in 1849 along the Oregon Trail on their way to California. Not until 1857 did the first settlers come in number to carve out farms in the rich creek and river valleys. Washington City came into being in 1860, one year before Kansas became a state, being founded by Mr's Ballard, Bowen, and Pierce.