Green Bluff, Washington

Green Bluff is a small unincorporated farming community and census-designated place in Spokane County, Washington, it is named after a nearby cliff.

The town has a grange hall, church, fire station and general store and is known for equestrian properties as well as small farms.

Located just 15 minutes drive north of Spokane, Green Bluff is a popular destination among locals for fruit picking.

[3] Long ago Native Americans burned away the underbrush on the bluff to give them better vision while they hunted game.

A repercussion of this act was the growth of thick green grass around the evergreen trees, giving the area a park-like appearance.

Baptiste Peone was chief of the valley camp, and his wife and children were baptized by Ref.

Green Bluff was favored as a lookout spot and hunting ground for the natives of the area.

Because of the vast amount of roots that needed to be cleared, the early settlers had to find a crop that would grow between tree stumps.

Officers who carried out governing duties such as a clerk, assessor and treasurer were elected by the community and held monthly and annual meetings until 1972, when the township was disbanded by demand of the county.

[7] The Green Bluff Grange is described as "an agricultural fraternity and its purpose is to build a program of fellowship, service and member activities.

It wasn’t until 1934 that an old boarding house in Elk, Washington was torn down and the wood was used to build the new Grange Hall.

Green Bluff is known for dry land farming and is home to breweries, a winery, cidery, meadery, and catering company, as well as an abundance of fresh produce including strawberries, rhubarb, lavender, cherries, raspberries, apricots, peaches, pears, blackberries, apples, nectarines, potatoes, carrots, cabbages, christmas trees and more.

An intermittent stream cuts a thin, steep valley through the center of the Green Bluff area, which Day Mount Spokane Road follows into the community.

The community agreed to pay him a $200 salary to come every Sunday and provide services in the schoolhouse until a church could be built.

Many pastors served the church in its early years, coming from the Peone or the Mead parsonage.

[13] The Green Bluff General Store has existed for over a hundred years, surviving two locations, two fires and three different buildings.

Wellington operated the "Green Bluff Mercantile" for twenty years, sometimes marrying people in the store rather than the church.

Green Bluff Autumn Festival
Signs advertising farms on the road up to Green Bluff
View of Mount Spokane from Green Bluff
Green Bluff School
Map of Washington highlighting Spokane County