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This week in Clark County history, Nov. 8

By Katie Bush, public historian at the Clark County Historical Museum
Published: November 8, 2024, 6:00am

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

Despite “lowering skies and a drizzling rain,” Clark County had one of the biggest voter turnouts in its history on Nov. 4, 1924. Precincts had between 80 and 100 voters.

  • 75 years ago

Vancouver began the process to purchase 12.5 acres of Vancouver Barracks for a city park on Nov. 8, 1949. The deal, negotiated with the War Assets Administration, cost around $9,700, about half of the property’s appraised value. The city eventually passed an emergency ordinance for the purchase, which today is known as Marshall Park.

  • 50 years ago

On Nov. 4, 1974, County Elections Supervisor Jim Gallagher told the Columbian he expected 40 percent of registered voters to go to the polls for the upcoming election. On the ballot was the “first county bond issue submitted in more than 30 years,” authorization to sell up to $8 million in bonds to finance a new public safety building and enlarge the county juvenile detention hall. Ultimately, the bond was defeated.

  • 25 years ago

In early November 1999, voters defeated bond measures for schools and libraries. In La Center, voters rejected a $16.5 million bond to build a new school and ease overcrowding. In Battle Ground and Camas, the electorate turned down library funding requests. School and library leaders looked to future bond measures, and other solutions, in the wake of their respective losses.

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