Waverly is a town in Spokane County, Washington, United States. The population was 106 at the 2010 census. Take a look below for 10 fun and awesome facts about Waverly, Washington, United States.
1. Waverly was settled by white immigrants as early as 1878, and was named by two settlers for their Iowa hometown in 1879.
2. The following year the community received a post office at the residence of A.D. Thayer on Hangman Creek (now Latah Creek), where it remained for five years.
3. In 1884 P. Gimble opened the town’s first business, a general store, which was followed by a station for a new branch of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, and warehouses built by the Spokane Grain & Milling Company and the Pacific Coast Elevator Company.
4. In December 1899 a beet sugar factory built by the Washington State Beet Sugar Company opened.
5. It cost $500,000 to build, included a 1,400 acres (570 ha) farm, and could process 350 short tons (320 t) per day.
6. It was considered unprofitable and inferior.
7. Thomas R. Cutler and the Utah Sugar Company advised the factory, based on their success with the Lehi, Utah factory.
8. The factory closed in 1910 and eventually sold to the Gunnison Sugar Company for $100,000.
9. The equipment was installed in Centerfield, Utah in 1917. The beet sugar company employed 150 workers in the factory, and up to 400 workers in the beet fields during harvest time.
10. Additionally, the town included a hardware store, jewelry store, harness shop, meat market, millinery, two hotels, two restaurants, a livery stable, barber shop, furniture store, and two saloons. Waverly was officially incorporated on May 15, 1907.