Chesaw
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 48.972, -119.039
Why it was abandoned
⛏️ Gold rush
Detected automatically from the text: The town sprang up and thrived during a brief gold rush from 1896 to 1900.
History
Chesaw is an unincorporated community in Okanogan County, Washington. Chesaw was named for the Chinese settler Chee Saw, who arrived in the mid-1890s and married a Native American woman. The town sprang up and thrived during a brief gold rush from 1896 to 1900. Chesaw now hosts an annual rodeo held every 4th of July.