In a tiny stop along Highway 101 called McGowan, better known as Station Camp to Lewis and Clark fans, sits a beautifully restored Catholic church called St. Mary’s. In 1904, P.J. McGowan donated the land and paid for the construction of the Catholic church.
In southwestern Washington where the mighty Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean are a string of sites that no historical tourist or lifelong resident of our state should leave unvisited. Between Hungry Harbor and the Long Beach Peninsula are three places that hold not only state but national significance. They are the three places that Captain Meriwether Lewis, Lieutenant William Clark and the entire Corps of Discovery expedition met with