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Loggers pose at a Weyerhaeuser Timber Company lumber camp in Yacolt. The Yacolt Burn of 1902 created as many as 700 jobs salvaging the burnt timber. Workers loaded charred logs on railroad flatcars and sent them to Vancouver daily.

Clark County history: After the Yacolt Burn

January 13, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life

The 1902 fire came close enough to blister paint on many of the Yacolt’s 15 buildings but turned north short of town. Leaves, ash and cinders swirled like a snowstorm. When the rain came days later, it cleared the air and cooled the embers. What remained of the forest was… Read story

“People will tell you, ‘My dad drank it. My grandpa drank it. So many people who live here have a connection to the Lucky Lager brewery,” said Vancouver beer memorabilia collector Pat Franco.

‘The king of West Coast beers,’ Lucky Lager an iconic part of Vancouver’s history

January 12, 2024, 6:04am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

What’s your pleasure: the X, whether bold and blocky or squished flat; the ribbonlike, elegant L; or, some smart mashup of one or more of these familiar symbols? Read story

Henry Pittock died of influenza during the Spanish flu epidemic, after this portrait was taken. He and his wife Georgina had four daughters and two sons. One daughter married Fredrick Leadbetter, who became his partner. The two founded Camas and owned its first paper mill and a sawmill in Vancouver.

Clark County history: Henry Pittock

January 6, 2024, 6:03am Clark County Life

Henry Pittock wasn’t the first to bring industry to Camas. Michael Simmons built a small shingle mill there and sold shakes to the Hudson’s Bay Company. Both businessmen landed at the juncture of the Columbia and Washougal rivers near today’s Georgia-Pacific mill. Read story

This week in Clark County history

January 5, 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

The five foundresses of the Sisters of Providence Northwest mission in Washington Territory. Front row: Sister Praxedes of Providence, Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart, Sister Mary of the Precious Blood. Back row, Sister Vincent de Paul, Sister Blandine of the Holy Angels.

Sisters of Providence’s holy ground: Mother Joseph Catholic Cemetery of Vancouver final resting place for pioneering religious women

January 3, 2024, 6:06am Churches & Religion

Tucked away behind Vancouver Barracks National Cemetery lies another cemetery nearly as old. In it lies the remains, not of soldiers but of pioneering women, such as Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart, who brought their Catholic faith and personal grit to Southwest Washington, influencing the greater Pacific Northwest region… Read story

Clark County history: Charles Shumway

Pioneering Vancouver educator C.W. Shumway circulated these campaign cards as part of his unsuccessful candidacy for county superintendent of schools, but is still remembered for his work as superintendent of the Vancouver School District.

December 30, 2023, 6:05am Clark County Life

Vancouver’s new school superintendent, Charles Shumway, and his wife traveled from Milo, Iowa, to Vancouver in 1895. Passing through towns named Hope and Paradise, Mrs. Shumway commented they’d indeed left both behind, saddened to leave the town where her husband spent a decade as an elementary school principal. Read story

Clark County History: Lumberman Frederick Leadbetter

Some of the Pittock & Leadbetter Lumber Company crew pose for a photo outside the Vancouver sawmill in Vancouver. The original plant burned in June 1908 but reopened in October. The mill was owned by Clark County lumberman Frederick Leadbetter and his father-in-law, Henry Pittock.

December 16, 2023, 5:58am Clark County Life

The man owned a lot of timber. Quite a lot. According to the 1908 American Lumberman, Frederick Leadbetter held nearly 1.4 billion feet of timber in Washington and Oregon. Clark County contained 200 million feet of it. Read story

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