Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Maryhill, WA

Maryhill is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Klickitat County, sitting on the north bank of the Columbia River along Washington's southern border.

The community is the creation of Sam Hill, the railroad executive and pioneering good-roads promoter, who bought about 5,300 acres there in 1907 hoping to found a Quaker farming community.

The site was earlier known as Columbia or Columbus — its river landing was called Columbus Landing — before Hill laid out his planned town.

In 1909 the Klickitat County commissioners accepted Hill's proposed town name 'Maryland,' but postal authorities refused a name identical to a state, so the town was renamed Maryhill.

The name Maryhill honors Sam Hill's wife and daughter, both of whom were named Mary.

Hill's Quaker colony never materialized, and the town buildings he constructed burned down several years later, leaving his planned community largely unrealized.

Hill used his Maryhill holdings to experiment with some of the first paved roads in the Pacific Northwest.

On the bluff above the community stands the Maryhill Museum of Art, begun in 1914 as Hill's own grand residence to designs by the Washington, D.C., firm Hornblower and Marshall, dedicated by Queen Marie of Romania in 1926, and opened to the public as a museum in 1940; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Just east of the community, Hill built Maryhill Stonehenge, a full-scale replica of England's Stonehenge, as a memorial to Klickitat County's World War I dead; its altar stone was dedicated on July 4, 1918, and Hill intended the monument as a protest against the needless human sacrifice of war.

The community is home to Maryhill State Park on the Columbia River shore, and U.S. Route 97 crosses the river at Maryhill on the Sam Hill Memorial Bridge into Oregon while State Route 14 runs east–west past the townsite.