Editing Maryhill, Washington (section)

==History==
Maryhill is named after the wife and daughter of regional icon [[Samuel Hill|Sam Hill]], who purchased land and envisioned a community there shortly after the turn of the 20th century.<ref name=PNW>Hitchman, Robert. ''Place Names of Washington''. [[Washington State Historical Society]]. 1985.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Meany |first=Edmond S. |title=Origin of Washington geographic names |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027074981;view=1up;seq=176 |year=1923 |publisher=University of Washington Press |location=Seattle |page=160}}</ref> Earlier the area was known as "Columbia"<ref name=PNW/> or "Columbus".<ref>{{Harvnb|Tuhy|1983|p=197}}</ref> In 1909, the Klickitat County commissioners had accepted the town's name as "Maryland" - proposed by Sam Hill and Associates who had laid out the town. However, this name was rejected by postal authorities as they would not accept a name corresponding to a state, so it was renamed "Maryhill".<ref>''The Sunday Oregonian'', June 27, 1909: SECTION FOUR, Page 9.</ref>

Hill used his Maryhill property to build the first paved roads in the [[Pacific Northwest]], the [[Maryhill Museum of Art]] (originally intended as a grand residence for the Hills), [[Maryhill Stonehenge]], a monument to the [[World War I]] casualties of Klickitat County in the form of a [[Stonehenge replicas and derivatives|Stonehenge replica]],<ref>[https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.694344,-120.806104&spn=0.003458,0.006748&t=k&om=1 Google map of Stonehenge replica]</ref> and a [[planned community]]. Born a [[Quaker]], Hill hoped to attract a Quaker community to eastern Washington. His plans never materialized and the town buildings he constructed burned down several years later.

Hill intended the Stonehenge replica to express that modern warfare was a form of needless human sacrifice, referencing the contemporary belief that Stonehenge was a sacrificial site.<ref>{{cite web | title = Altar stone of Stonehenge replica built to memorialize World War I soldiers is dedicated at Maryhill on July 4, 1918. | publisher = HistoryLink | url = http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=7809 | accessdate = 2008-03-30 }}</ref>