The family feared Washington would be forced into slavery if they stayed in Missouri after the passage of the Compromise of 1850. Cochran and his wife Anna were led there via the Oregon Trail by their adopted son, George Washington, a free African-American. In the 1850s and 1860s, Centralia's Borst Home, at the confluence of the Chehalis and Skookumchuck Rivers, was the site of a toll ferry, and the halfway stopping point for stagecoaches operating between Kalama, Washington and Tacoma. Centralia is twinned with Chehalis, located to the south near the confluence of the Chehalis and Newaukum rivers. The city had a population of 18,183 at the 2020 census. It is located along Interstate 5 near the midpoint between Seattle and Portland, Oregon. Centralia ( / s ɛ n ˈ t r eɪ l i ə/) is a city in Lewis County, Washington, United States.
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