The City of Yakima Wasn’t Always in Yakima. Wait, What?
Did you know?
The Yakima we know wasn't always Yakima.
Like, 'Yakima' Yakima.
Well, it's true, but it's something that happened a long time ago.
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Fun Yakima Facts
Yakima is home to a lot of fun factoids that many people in Yakima are ready to pull out of their back pocket at a moment's notice.
Facts like Yakima is home to 75% of the hops used for beer in the United States and about half of the hops for beer in the world. That's a fun one.
Or the fact that Yakima is home to the invention of the bread clip.
There's also the celebrities from Yakima like Kyle MacLachlan and Cooper Kupp just to name a couple.
But one fact about Yakima was that the Yakima we know today wasn't always just called Yakima.
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Yakima's History of North Yakima
The Yakima we know today as Yakima was once called North Yakima.
Having a North Yakima implies that there was a South Yakima and you'd be partially right.
It wasn't called South Yakima but just Yakima more closer to where Union Gap is now.
Long ago, in an area near Union Gap, that was Yakima.
Then, along the way, there was another section of area they labeled as North Yakima.
North Yakima Had a Slight Name Change
As time went on, North Yakima became the hub it is today and around 1918 they just dropped the 'North' part of the name and had that be the new Yakima, but without calling it New Yakima as that would be weird.
It works for places like New York and New Jersey as York and Jersey already exited in Europe, but this is just renaming Yakima as the proper Yakima and grow from there.
This came from the good ol' Encyclopedia Brittanica which you don't even need to have the rows of books on a shelf anymore, they have it online.
And for the youth of today, encyclopedias were what we had before the Internet was invented.
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