October 26, 2024, 6:13am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
Strange bronze creatures and shiny abstract shapes roost on James and Jane Hansen’s rolling acreage. Smaller beings from the same imaginary kingdom live alongside the Hansens inside their vibrantly artistic home. Read story
October 26, 2024, 6:10am Clark County Life
While serving as an instructor for the Illinois National Guard, Col. George C. Marshall, then 55, felt of “little importance to the Army.” He’d plateaued at colonel, and his future appeared mediocre. Then, the Army promoted him to brigadier general in October 1936 and posted him to the Vancouver Barracks. Read story
October 25, 2024, 5:57am 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
October 19, 2024, 6:13am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
Clark County’s growth and identity have always been shaped by remarkable women. One such woman — an author, historian, civic activist, former city councilwoman and Clark County’s 2012 First Citizen — will shine an admiring light on her predecessors during a historical talk Monday. Read story
October 19, 2024, 6:10am Clark County Life
For a brief time, Providence Academy was Washington Territory’s largest brick building. Constructed in 1874 of bricks supplied from Vancouver’s Hidden brickyard, Mother Joseph designed the structure. Read story
October 18, 2024, 5:30am 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
October 12, 2024, 6:13am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
I could smell woodsmoke from Fort Vancouver’s kitchen as soon as I got out of my car in the Fifth Street visitor lot. The aroma led me to the weathered wood building behind the reconstructed Chief Factor’s House, where John McLoughlin and his family would have lived in the fort’s… Read story
October 12, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life
Local rowdies beat Moy Ling after he left a Methodist church, reported the Clark County Register in January 1881. This single local incident demonstrates the anti-Chinese feelings festering within the Washington Territory. Read story
October 11, 2024, 5:29am 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
October 5, 2024, 6:07am Clark County Life
When the Civil War broke out, John Gibbon, a North Carolinian and 1847 West Point graduate, remained faithful to the Union while his brothers, cousin and brothers-in-law chose the Confederacy. Gibbon received his first wound at Fredericksburg, Va. in December 1862. During Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg, Pa., in July 1863,… Read story
