Editing Waverly, Washington (section)

==History==
[[File:Contextual view looking north- Town of Waverly (background) - Latah Creek Bridge No. 4102, Prairie View Road, Waverly, Spokane County, WA HAER WA-163-2.tif|thumb|left|The Latah Creek Bridge and the Town of Waverly, pre-1968]]
Waverly was settled by white immigrants as early as 1878, and was named by two settlers after [[Waverly, Iowa]] in 1879.<ref name=majors>{{Cite book| last = Majors | first = Harry M. | title = Exploring Washington | publisher = Van Winkle Publishing Co | year = 1975 | page = 111 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CoWrPQAACAAJ| isbn = 978-0-918664-00-6}}</ref><ref name="Hitchman">{{Cite book |last=Hitchman |first=Robert |title=Place Names of Washington |publisher=[[Washington State Historical Society]] |year=1985 |isbn=0-917048-57-1 |pages=325}}</ref>  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.

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.

In December 1899 a beet sugar factory built by the Washington State Beet Sugar Company opened.<ref name="arrington-wa" /> It cost $500,000 to build, included a {{convert|1400|acre}} farm, and could process {{convert|350|short ton}} per day.<ref name="arrington-wa" /> It was considered unprofitable and inferior.<ref name="arrington-wa" /> [[Thomas R. Cutler]] and the [[Utah Sugar Company]] advised the factory, based on their success with the [[Lehi, Utah]] factory.<ref name="arrington-wa" /> The factory closed in 1910 and eventually sold to the [[Gunnison Sugar Company]] for $100,000.<ref name="arrington-wa" /> The equipment was installed in [[Centerfield, Utah]] in 1917.<ref name="arrington-wa">{{cite journal|last=Arrington|first=Leonard J.|year=1966|title=The U and I Sugar Company in Washington|journal=Pacific Northwest Quarterly |publisher=Washington State Historical Society|location=[[Seattle, Washington]]|volume=57|issue=3|pages=101–109|oclc=2392232}}</ref> The beet sugar company employed 150 workers in the factory, and up to 400 workers in the beet fields during harvest time.  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.<ref>{{cite book |title=Illustrated history of Spokane county, state of Washington |last=Edwards |first=Jonathan (1847-1929) |year=1900 |publisher=W.H. Lever |pages=286–287 |url=http://www.secstate.wa.gov/history/publications_view.aspx?pub=100&p=314&i=images/publications/SL_edwardsillustrated/directory.djvu }}</ref>  Waverly was officially incorporated on May 15, 1907.