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June 12, 2017

How Walla Walla reinvented itself as a center for fine wine, tourism

  • Upscale restaurants and boutiques have sprung up, and new hotels are opening.
  • By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
    Associated Press

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    L’Ecole No. 41, which is housed in an old schoolhouse, was one of the pioneers of Walla Walla wines. The town used to be best known for sweet onions and the state penitentiary.

    WALLA WALLA — Walla Walla used to be best known for sweet onions and as home of the state penitentiary, where death row inmates once were hanged. But the remote town along the Washington-Oregon border has reinvented itself in the past two decades into a center of premium wines and wine tourism.


     
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