Editing Republic, Washington (section)

==Arts and culture==
[[File:Republica weatbrooki holotype SR 06-59-08 img1.tif|thumb|right|150px|''[[Republica weatbrooki]]'' wing fossil, [[Stonerose Interpretive Center and Fossil Site|Stonerose collections]]]]
[[File:Florissantia quilchenensis 01 SRIC.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''[[Florissantia quilchenensis]]'' flower fossil, inspiration for the Republic Skatepark]]
The areas history of mining and logging is celebrated during the annual Prospector's Days weekend, held during the second weekend in June. Events are staged across Republic, and people attending can try their hand at competing in mining and logging competitions, panning for gold, and watching an old west gun fight.

The [[Stonerose Interpretive Center and Fossil Site]], famous for the [[Eocene]] [[fossil]]s found in a 49 [[mya (unit)|mya]] [[Klondike Mountain Formation]] lake bed at the north end of Republic is housed on the corner of North Clarke Avenue and Highway 20. A number of extinct plants and animals found in the lake bed have been named in honor of Republic, including ''[[Acer republicense]]'', a [[maple]], ''[[Rhus republicensis]]'', a [[sumac]], and ''[[Republica hickeyi]]'' an extinct flowering plant. Insects named for Republic include ''[[Republica weatbrooki]]'', a damselfly, ''[[Republicopteron douseae]]'', a [[katydid]]-relative, and ''[[Ulteramus republicensis]]'' a [[sawfly]].<ref name="Archibald2015">{{Cite journal|last1=Archibald |first1=S.B. |last2=Rasnitsyn |first2=A.P. |year=2015 |title=New early Eocene Siricomorpha (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Pamphiliidae, Siricidae, Cephidae) from the Okanagan Highlands, western North America |journal=[[The Canadian Entomologist]] |volume=148 |issue=2 |pages=209–228 |doi=10.4039/tce.2015.55 |s2cid=85743832 }}</ref>

At the [[Ferry County Fairgrounds]], located {{convert|3|mi|km|abbr=on}} east of town on [[Washington State Route 20|State Route 20]], is the [[Ferry County Carousel]] originally built between 1895 and 1900.