Ferry-Midway Border Crossing, Border crossing point at Customs Road in Curlew, Washington, United States.
Ferry-Midway is a port of entry crossing the Canada-United States border between Washington and British Columbia. The inspection stations sit on Customs Road in Curlew on the American side and Dominion Street on the Canadian side.
The crossing began operations in 1896 when customs facilities were first established, with railway connections from both countries arriving in the early 1900s. The United States border station built in 1936 was later added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
The crossing serves local communities from British Columbia and Washington State, enabling regular exchanges between Canadian and American residents in this rural region.
The crossing links Curlew, Washington, via Customs Road, with Midway, British Columbia, via Dominion Street. The US station dates from 1936 and the Canadian station from 1951. The Curlew Border Patrol Station, opened in December 2003, covers 39 miles (63 km) of border in Ferry and Okanogan Counties.
An oak tree planted in 1927 to mark a visit by the Prince of Wales stands in front of the site of the old Canadian customs office, a building long since demolished, on the southwestern side of the road just south of the Boundary Creek bridge.
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