Waverly

History

Waverly was settled by white immigrants as early as 1878, and was named by two settlers after Waverly, Iowa in 1879. The following year the community received a post office at the residence of A.D. Thayer on Hangman Creek (now Latah Creek), where it remained for five years. In 1884 P. Gimble opened the town's first business, a general store, which was followed by a station for a new branch of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, and warehouses built by the Spokane Grain & Milling Company and the Pacific Coast Elevator Company. In December 1899 a beet sugar factory built by the Washington State Beet Sugar Company opened. The beet sugar company employed 150 workers in the factory, and up to 400 workers in the beet fields during harvest time. Additionally, the town included a hardware store, jewelry store, harness shop, meat market, millinery, two hotels, two restaurants, a livery stable, barber shop, furniture store, and two saloons. Waverly was officially incorporated on May 15, 1907.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land.

Race & ethnicity

Largest nearby schools

• Liberty Jr High & Elementary
  Elementary · SPANGLE · 415 students · 18:1 ratio
• Liberty High School
  High · SPANGLE · 178 students · 16.2:1 ratio