County public works abandons two roads

A pair of former roads were formally abandoned by Whitman County commissioners Monday morning.

Public Works Director Mark Storey said both roads, the F.M. Thompson and Jesse Lewis Roads, were actually former roads that have become just pieces of property owned by the county.

“There haven’t been roads there for 50 years,” said Storey.

Both roads, off the Wawawai Road west of Colton, were made obsolete when Wawawai Road was rebuilt in the 1930s.

Neither the F.M. Thompson nor the Jesse Lewis Road have signs and they are not marked on county maps.

Abandonment means the land now becomes property of...