CENTRALIA, a city of Lewis county, Washington, U.S.A., on the Pacific highway, about half-way between Seattle and Port land. It is served by four transcontinental railways : the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific, the Great Northern, the North ern Pacific and the Union Pacific. The population was 7,549 in 1920, and was 8,o58 in 1930 by the Federal census. Chehalis, the county seat, lies 4m. S., and between the two cities are the south-western Washington fair-grounds. Lumbering, coal-mining, dairying, poultry-raising and berry-growing are the principal occu pations of the region. Centralia has saw and shingle mills, furni ture and concrete culvert factories and railroad shops. In Borst park, 1 gym. W. of the city, is a blockhouse built by the early set tlers as a stronghold against the Indians. Centralia is situated on the Cochrain Donation Claim. It was laid out by George Wash ington, a negro ex-slave of Cochrain, who became the owner of the land on the death of his master in 1852, and at first it was called Washington's Addition. Later it was known for a few years as Skookumchuck station, and then as Centerville, until the present name was adopted in 1887. In 1914 a commission form of gov ernment was adopted. On Armistice Day, 1919, Centralia was the scene of a conflict between the American Legion and the Indus trial Workers of the World which resulted in several deaths.