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May 25, 2007

Teapot is on list of state's endangered properties

ZILLAH (AP) — The 84-year-old Teapot Dome, a Yakima Valley landmark gas station that has sat idle the past few years after its owners closed it amid rising gas prices, has been declared one of the state's most endangered historic properties.

The gas station, built in 1922, is one of nine endangered historic properties listed this year by the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation. Its teapot shape symbolized the oil scandals and bribery charges that rocked Warren G. Harding's presidency a year earlier when federal oil fields, known as the Teapot Dome, were leased without competitive bidding to an oil operator.


 
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