February 16, 2024, 6:02am Clark County Life
This Week in Clark County History Read story
February 10, 2024, 6:02am Clark County Life
Army Air Service Lt. Oakley Kelly finagled the War Department into naming Vancouver’s airport after fellow aviation pioneer Lt. Alexander Pearson, who died Sept. 2, 1924, testing a prototype aircraft for the Army. Read story
February 9, 2024, 6:00am Clark County Life
A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story
February 3, 2024, 6:06am Clark County Life
The enslaved York was the only Black member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. William Clark inherited him from his father and wrote about him in the expedition’s journals, sometimes negatively. Besides the journal references, historians know little of York’s life before or after the expedition. Yet even in the… Read story
February 2, 2024, 5:44am Clark County Life
A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story
January 27, 2024, 6:02am Clark County Life
When the military tested a high-altitude B-52 at low levels in the hot turbulence of Eastern Oregon’s high desert in 1959, the giant bomber crashed. The Oregonian sent Leverett Richards, its aviation reporter since 1935, to cover the breaking news and get pictures. The 288-mile trip could have meant six… Read story
January 26, 2024, 6:00am Clark County Life
A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story
January 20, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life
In 1940, the construction of Highway 99 nearly demolished one of the oldest church buildings in Clark County. The Salmon Creek United Methodist Church had to be moved to its current location on the east side of the road. Today, those driving northbound along Northeast Highway 99 by the creek… Read story
January 20, 2024, 5:59am Clark County News
The Camas-Washougal Historical Society board of directors elected new officers at their January 2024 meeting. Longtime volunteer and board member Dick Lindstrom will take on the presidency this year. Other new officers are Lois Cobb, vice president, and Nancy Carroll, secretary. Betty Egger will continue as treasurer. Outgoing officers were… Read story
January 19, 2024, 6:02am Clark County Life
A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story
