August 3, 2024, 6:08am Clark County Life
Learning to fly for Wally Olson was a series of hops rather than a smooth takeoff. He flew first in 1933 but didn’t gain a pilot’s license until six years later. After flying in World War II, he went to California to teach discharged pilots stunt flying or aviating Douglas… Read story
August 2, 2024, 5:35am 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
July 30, 2024, 6:06am Business
The man who battled racism to become Vancouver’s first licensed Black barber died this month and will be grieved today. Read story
July 27, 2024, 6:10am Clark County Life
The family of Sgt. John Ordway lived near John Ball’s parents in Hebron, N.H. Ordway had crossed the country with Lewis and Clark, returning in 1806. Young Ball was an eager listener about the journey’s adventures, people, wildlife and geography. Imagining the far corner of the continent appealed to him,… Read story
July 26, 2024, 5:43am 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
July 20, 2024, 6:08am Clark County Life
There seems to be a gap between Vancouver’s 1857 incorporation and any official call for law enforcement. Policing wasn’t high on the city council’s priority list until after 1880, when the census counted 1,722 inhabitants in town. Read story
July 19, 2024, 5:32am 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. 100 years ago At a luncheon on July 16, 1924, C.A. Pender, vice president of the Prunarians, gave two members the go-ahead to hunt for gorillas roaming the… Read story
July 15, 2024, 4:10pm Clark County News
A Civil War-era veteran was honored Sunday at Brush Prairie Cemetery with a headstone for the first time. Read story
July 13, 2024, 6:10am Clark County Life
The second Women’s Christian Temperance Union president shifted the organization’s focus from temperance to suffrage. When Francis Willard took office in 1879, she launched a “do everything” policy. She reasoned, “meet argument with argument, misjudgment with patience, denunciation with kindness, and all our difficulties and dangers with prayer.” She first… Read story
July 12, 2024, 5:31am 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
