August 31, 2024, 6:14am Business
A long-awaited $21 million, two-year project to overhaul Main Street in downtown Vancouver is expected to begin this fall. Read story
August 31, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life
Hudson’s Bay Company officers at Fort Vancouver requested a school to educate their children. They got one in 1832. Read story
August 30, 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
August 24, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life
When Irishman John Wark joined the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1814, the firm made him a steward and anglicized his last name to “Work” on his contract. In 1823, after the HBC and Northwest Company merged, the firm assigned him to the Columbia District, the most distant and financially tenuous… Read story
August 23, 2024, 5:36am 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
August 17, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life
In the years leading up to Prohibition, the “dry” Clark County contingent saw saloons as chambers of criminality, where prostitution, gambling, brawling and even murder took place. They believed crimes extended beyond saloon walls, harming the community. The “wets,” of course, saw the saloons otherwise. Read story
August 16, 2024, 5:33am 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
August 15, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life
In presidential races of yore — before the advent of T-shirts, hats, signs and bumper stickers — voters indicated their preferences through the pipes they smoked, puffing tobacco between their favorite presidential wannabes’ ears. Read story
August 10, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life
In 1889, a Minnesota widow, Katharina Roffler, and her four children moved into a small homesteader’s cabin near the split at La Camas and Fern roads, where they lived until 1895. From that tiny home came the boy who would someday build the grandest homes in Camas. Read story
August 9, 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
