Kennewick is a city located in Benton County in southeastern Washington. It is the most populous of the three cities collectively referred to as the Tri-Cities (the others being Pasco and Richland). Kennewick is located along the southwest bank of the Columbia River, opposite Pasco, Washington, and just south of the coming together of the Columbia and Yakima rivers and northeast of the Walla Walla River. As of the 2004 census estimates, the city had a total population of 60,118, making it the largest city in Benton County. Kennewick is also the host city of the Tri-City Americans of the Western Hockey League, as well as of the 2005 National Indoor Football League champions, the Tri-Cities Fever.

Kennewick, the largest city in the "Tri-Cities" area of Southeast Washington State, celebrated its centennial in 2004, marking 100 years of incorporation. It borders the two other cities of Pasco and Richland, each individual but all creating the Tri-city area.

Founded in 1883-1884 by railroad workers, arid Kennewick nearly died before the Northern Pacific Railroad built an irrigation canal that brought cool water to the parched earth in 1903.

With irrigation came agriculture and, beginning in 1973, it was Concord grapes that put Kennewick's name on the map.  At one time it was said there were more acres of Concord grape vineyards in Kennewick than anywhere in the world.  Sold to Welch's in 1953, the plant still operates successfully in Kennewick.

Founded in 1883-1884 by railroad workers, arid Kennewick nearly died before the Northern Pacific Railroad built an irrigation canal that brought cool water to the parched earth in 1903.

With irrigation came agriculture and, beginning in 1973, it was Concord grapes that put Kennewick's name on the map.  At one time it was said there were more acres of Concord grape vineyards in Kennewick than anywhere in the world.  Sold to Welch's in 1953, the plant still operates successfully in Kennewick.

Up until World War I, Kennewick remained a small agriculture-oriented town. Vast orchards surrounded the town, which had fewer than 2,000 inhabitants at the dawning of the War.  With wartime projects in nearby communities, Kennewick's population swelled as newcomers moved into town.

In 1969, a new indoor shopping mall was built in the middle of sand and sagebrush.  Now Kennewick surrounds the mall and has become the center of retail business for a region that encompasses all of southeast Washington and northeast Oregon.

Kennewick's five-mile long riverfront park, Columbia Park, has been the location of unlimited hydroplane races for nearly forty years and now hosts diverse community events and family activities. Columbia Park is also the site of the "Kennewick Man" discovery, a 9,200-year-old skeleton unearthed in 1996.  Its discovery has led to increased scientific questioning of the origins of the human race in North America. Come experience a world of activites and a wonderful place to call home.