Vancouver Barracks PX still in business
Army may have left, but shoppette highly valued by military families remains at its post
The birthplace of the U.S. Army post exchange system is getting another distinction: It will be the only one in a national park.
Fort Vancouver National Trust seeks input on Post Hospital uses
The Fort Vancouver National Trust, in partnership with Carleton Hart Architecture and LSW Architects, is seeking public comment on the potential future uses of the historic Post Hospital building in the West Vancouver Barracks.
Grant sought for proposed arts campus at Vancouver Barracks
Donations needed for match; former Post hospital would be converted
Supporters of a proposed arts campus in Vancouver’s historic core have sent out a call for donations, eyeing a grant that could help get the project rolling.
A salute to the future at Vancouver Barracks
Public meetings focus on four possibilities for folding the former military campus into the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
The concept of a historic Vancouver Barracks campus, blending public agencies with expanded museum displays and some commercial use, came into sharper focus in a public meeting Wednesday.
Vancouver Barracks awaits next marching orders
Park service sets meetings on future of East, South areas
After serving our country for 162 years, the first permanent U.S. Army post in the Pacific Northwest is awaiting its next assignment.
Fort Vancouver smartphone app brings history to life
The National Park Service is entrusted with telling the stories of America’s most historic places. Now a Vancouver-based collaboration is pioneering a new way to share that history through the people who lived it — people like William Kaulehelehe.
Armed forces center ready for review
New facility replaces Army’s post at Vancouver Barracks
The first time the U.S. Army opened a post in Vancouver, it meant a five-month march that covered more than 2,000 miles.
Pulling out of the Barracks
After 162 years, Army leaves Vancouver base, which will be part of National Park Service
An era ended at midnight Wednesday when military operations ceased at Vancouver Barracks. After 162 years as a U.S. Army base during some defining periods of American history, the barracks site is preparing for a new role. It is destined to become part of the National Park Service, which operates the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.
Vancouver Freedom Walk draws crowd to remember 9/11
About 150 people gathered Sunday morning in Vancouver for the first Freedom Walk in memory of the attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. on Sept. 11, 2001.
New downtown library opens Sunday
Five years after voters approved a construction bond measure, the $38 million Vancouver Community Library debuts Sunday with a festive grand opening. A block party on C Street will detour vehicle traffic until late afternoon.
Back together at the brigade encampment
History fans re-create a day of 1844 at Fort Vancouver
Asher Webb learned a valuable lesson about reading the fine print Saturday. After inking his name — one letter at a time — to the bottom of a contract, he was reminded by fort official David Douglas and his son Andrew that the next two years of the boy’s life belonged to the Hudson’s Bay Company. Asher quickly reconsidered. After all, two years is a big part of your life when you’re only 6.
Veteran honors soldiers as a ‘name-keeper’
Former chief of U.S. Army casualty operations focuses now on local war memorial
This is a weekend to salute our servicemen who died in the line of duty, and to honor the families of the fallen. It’s what Richard Landis did every day for almost four years. The Clark County veteran was chief of the U.S. Army’s casualty operations center from 1984 to 1987, and was called back to duty for the first Gulf War.
Barracks renovation is chance to see old construction
When Kevin Kowitz learned his construction company would do the Artillery Barracks renovation in Vancouver, Kowitz decided to get out of the front office and head for a job site again. “I’ve been in management, and I wanted to do a historic building,” said Kowitz, the job superintendent for Payne Construction in Portland. “It’s not every day you get to work on a 107-year-old building.”
Will Post Hospital make an artful transition?
Representatives of arts community discuss potential uses for building
Almost a century ago, the hospital at Vancouver Barracks helped 20,500 patients recover from the Spanish flu.
Off Beat: Newlyweds’ practical joke takes the cake, out of their mouths
After 70 years, a Vancouver bride and groom finally got to enjoy their slices of wedding cake. And the policeman who interrupted the proceedings this time was packing a pardon.
Remembering driving in the barracks | By Bruce Mickelson
Remembering meeting her husband
Her dad remembers Gen. Marshall
She met troops as a telephone operator | By Patty Frimberger
The view in 1938 | By Shirlee Evans
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Vancouver Barracks project team: Marsha Matta, Andrea Damewood, Tom Vogt, Steven Lane, Troy Wayrynen, Zachary Kaufman, Mark Bowder, Adam Coddington, Jeff Bunch, Robert Holcomb and Dave Kern
