Prairie, Washington

Prairie is an unincorporated community in Skagit County, in the U.S. state of Washington.[1]

History

A post office called Prairie was established in 1884, and remained in operation until 1925.[2] The community took its name from a nearby prairie.[3]

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gollark: Though I'm not sure *what* I can do to usefully backup my 50GB of media, which is just archives of TV shows and YouTube channels and whatnot.
gollark: I'm awake then sometimes, but I guess it wouldn't be *too* horrible to do that at 2am?
gollark: Probably, but that would still be two hours a day or week or something of backups tying up the entire internet connection.
gollark: I mean, I would want to do backups often, and encrypted ones, which would prevent deduplication or whatever.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Prairie, Washington
  2. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  3. Meany, Edmond S. (1923). Origin of Washington geographic names. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 230.



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