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Starting in 1907, Sam Hill bought up most of what had been a small settlement called "Columbia" or "Columbus" near the Columbia River in Klickitat County, Washington, which he envisioned as a new community in the Inland Empire. He named the parcel Maryhill, after his wife and his daughter Mary – neither of whom ever actually lived there.
His original plan was to develop it as a farming community of Quakers, but Sam was the only known Quaker resident.[29] Taken as a whole, his attempt to create the Maryhill community was one of Hill's least successful investments: He spent at least US$600,000[30] that never paid back in any significant measure.[29]
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