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East Wenatchee is a city in Douglas County on the east bank of the Columbia River, facing Wenatchee across the water; in 2002 it was designated a principal city of the Wenatchee–East Wenatchee metropolitan statistical area.

The first highway bridge across the Columbia River opened here in 1908 — a 1,060-foot pin-connected steel cantilever span that also carried two irrigation water pipelines; retired from highway use in 1950, it survives today as a footbridge on the Apple Capital Recreation Loop Trail.

Incorporation barely passed: on February 28, 1935, voters approved creating the town by a 48-to-46 vote, and East Wenatchee was incorporated on March 11, 1935, on an original townsite of just 50 acres.

On October 5, 1931, pilots Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr. belly-landed their Bellanca airplane Miss Veedol at Fancher Field in East Wenatchee, completing the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean, from Misawa, Japan.

The city's airport is named Pangborn Memorial Airport in honor of that flight — it offers daily Alaska Airlines service to Seattle–Tacoma International Airport — and the nearby Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

On May 27, 1987, farmworkers digging in an orchard just east of the city uncovered the East Wenatchee Clovis Site, an 11,000-year-old cache of Clovis points left by Ice Age hunters; after two excavation seasons the site was closed to further research following protests by Native American tribes.

Annexation of much of the East Wenatchee Bench sent the population soaring 129 percent by the 2010 census; the 2020 census counted 14,158 residents and 5,295 households in the city.

Orchards surround the city — apples, sweet cherries, and pears are the main commercial crops, with apricots, peaches, nectarines, and plums also grown — in a desert climate that averages only about 8 inches of precipitation a year at Pangborn Airport.

The area's two major shopping centers, Wenatchee Valley Mall and Valley North Mall, are both located in East Wenatchee.

The Eastmont School District operates the city's public schools, including Eastmont High School, Sterling Junior High School, Eastmont Junior High School, and Clovis Intermediate School.