page_title: Wishram, Washington
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Wishram, Washington / History
caption_attribution_description: English: BNSF railway station Wishram (WA) with its shunting yard and the railway bridge crossing the Columbia river. The three BNSF units at the bottom of the picture are probably GE Dash-9 C44-9W. Deutsch: BNSF-Bahnhof Wishram (Bundesstaat Washington, USA) mit Rangierbahnhof und der Eisenbahnbrücke über den Columbia. Die drei BNSF-Loks sind vermutlich GE Dash-9 C44-9W.
context_page_description: Wishram is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Klickitat County, Washington, United States. The population was 342 at the 2010 census, up from 213 at the 2000 census. The site of the historic Celilo Falls is nearby.
  The community was originally named "Fallbridge"; it was changed to "Wishram" to honor the Wishram tribe of Native Americans. The Dalles Dam, 9 miles downstream on the Columbia River, was completed in 1957, and began filling Lake Celilo. The original fishing village near this location was inundated.
context_section_description: The area of Wishram was located ¹⁄₂ mile (0.8 km) above the head of the great Celilo Falls on the Columbia, and as a result has been populated for an extended period. For around 15,000 years, native peoples gathered to fish and exchange goods. They built wooden platforms out over the water and caught salmon with dipnets and long spears on poles as the fish swam up through the rapids and jumped over the falls. Celilo Falls and The Dalles were strategically located at the border between Chinookan and Sahaptian-speaking peoples and served as the center of an extensive trading network across the Pacific Plateau. It was noted by early explorers and historians of the area.
  In 1892 the U.S. government completed a set of locks to bypass Celilo Falls on the southern shore, across from Wishram. Built at a cost of $5,000,000, these locks saw limited service as much of the freight in and out of the Pacific Northwest began to travel by rail.
  In 1912 the unincorporated town was known as "Fallbridge", named in recognition of the southern extension of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, which crossed the Columbia on the Oregon Trunk Rail Bridge constructed on the basalt rock of Celilo Falls.
caption: Wishram railway yard with a BNSF freight train with Oregon cliffs and Mount Hood in the background.
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