travel42 Port Guide: Walla Walla

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Home of the legendary Walla Walla sweet onion (and the fictional Ace Novelty Company from the Warner Brothers cartoons), Walla Walla is also known for the Whitman Mission National Historic Site. The mission, a major Oregon Trail stop, was used to convert the local Cayuse people to Christianity and farming. The contact with passing settlers soon spread measles among the natives. The crisis peaked when members of the tribe killed the family who ran the mission, along with 11 other settlers. Five C...