Gorge Dam
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A pivotal scene in the 1974 Warren Beatty film, The Parallax View, was shot at this location.
In 2020, the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe created an online petition calling for the removal of the Gorge Dam.[3]
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- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation, filed under Newhalem, Whatcom County, WA:
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