Whitman Mission National Historic Site is a National Historic site located at the site of the former Whitman Mission at Waiilatpu that commemorates Dr. Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa Whitman who founded the Oregon Trail and were later slain by Native Americans of the Cayuse in 1847. The site honors the challenges the couple went through in discovering and establishing the trail and the difficulties they experienced with the local Native Americans of the Cayuse. The Cayuse people blamed several deaths from a measles outbreak in 1847 on Dr. Whitman. Dr. and Mrs. Whitman, who were taken hostage and killed, sending a shock wave across the country and prompting Congress to make Oregon a U.S. territory.
328 Whitman Mission Rd, Walla Walla, WA 99362, Phone: 509-522-6360
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