what county is centralia wa in
Centralia is a city in Lewis County, Washington, United States. The population was 16,336 at the 2010 census. In pioneer days, Centralia was the halfway stopover point for stagecoaches operating between the Columbia River and Seattle. In 1850, J. G. Cochran came from Missouri with a young African-American free man named George Washington whom Cochran had adopted as a son, and filed a donation land claim on the townsite.