Royal City
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City of Royal City
Vision:
Royal City is a HORIZONS community. We have received a grant to initiate community conversation and action planning focused on poverty, leadership building using Leadership Plenty training, community visioning and planning focused on leadership growth and poverty reduction and idea implementation.
HORIZONS is about movement and change: from waiting to leading... from talk to action...from poverty to prosperity... from a few to many... from despair to hope ... from indifference to price.
Local facilitators completed Royal Roundtables in March and part of the requirements for Leadership Plenty.
Strengthening the Heart of Our Community is people of all ages working together to make our community better. We care about everyone who lives and works here. We care about businesses, families and children, jobs and education. Everyone is welcome.
Current projects include town beautification and a new welcome sign, beginning a Neighborhood Watch program, continuing community cleanup, and putting seasonal banners on our main street.
Our History:
Royal City was founded in 1956 and officially incorporated on Febrary 14, 1962, becoming the first code city in Grant County in 1985. The naming of the city has always been a mystery. The name originated in 1957 when the town of Royal City was incorporated. The early pioneers referred to the area as Royal Flats. One story is about a pair of Scotsmen, who climbed the Saddle Mountains and drank in the view of the south - canted topography - perfect for farming - and remarked "Now that's a Royal Slope."
Another story was that one of the pioneers named the Royal Flats because she always said, "We are so royal here to each other."
A book which describes the origin of Washington State names, Washington State Place Names, reads,Once the area around the post office, known by the topographically descriptive title of Red Rock, the new town situated on Royal Flats adopted its present name in 1957 when it became the center of prime agricultural area as a result of reclamation projects in the Royal Slope area.
Royal City is a HORIZONS community. We have received a grant to initiate community conversation and action planning focused on poverty, leadership building using Leadership Plenty training, community visioning and planning focused on leadership growth and poverty reduction and idea implementation.
HORIZONS is about movement and change: from waiting to leading... from talk to action...from poverty to prosperity... from a few to many... from despair to hope ... from indifference to price.
Local facilitators completed Royal Roundtables in March and part of the requirements for Leadership Plenty.
Strengthening the Heart of Our Community is people of all ages working together to make our community better. We care about everyone who lives and works here. We care about businesses, families and children, jobs and education. Everyone is welcome.
Current projects include town beautification and a new welcome sign, beginning a Neighborhood Watch program, continuing community cleanup, and putting seasonal banners on our main street.
Our History:
Royal City was founded in 1956 and officially incorporated on Febrary 14, 1962, becoming the first code city in Grant County in 1985. The naming of the city has always been a mystery. The name originated in 1957 when the town of Royal City was incorporated. The early pioneers referred to the area as Royal Flats. One story is about a pair of Scotsmen, who climbed the Saddle Mountains and drank in the view of the south - canted topography - perfect for farming - and remarked "Now that's a Royal Slope."
Another story was that one of the pioneers named the Royal Flats because she always said, "We are so royal here to each other."
A book which describes the origin of Washington State names, Washington State Place Names, reads,Once the area around the post office, known by the topographically descriptive title of Red Rock, the new town situated on Royal Flats adopted its present name in 1957 when it became the center of prime agricultural area as a result of reclamation projects in the Royal Slope area.