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Humanities Washington musician and historian Joel Underwood delivers a musical talk about Woody Guthrie at The Historic Trust in Vancouver in September 2024.

DOGE cuts imperil Clark County nonprofits’ cultural, educational programming

Humanities Washington musician and historian Joel Underwood delivers a musical talk about Woody Guthrie at The Historic Trust in Vancouver in September 2024.

April 12, 2025, 6:05am Clark County Life

Cultural and educational programming hosted by local nonprofit agencies including schools, libraries, the Clark County Historical Museum and The Historic Trust are in jeopardy after sweeping federal grant cuts earlier this month. Historical speakers and research, free event programming and literacy help for elementary students and their families all appear… Read story

In 1938, the Bonneville Power Administration received $10.75 million to lay dual transmission lines connecting Bonneville Dam and Vancouver. About 10 percent of the funds were used to build Ampere, which was renamed Ross Substation in 1941.

Clark County History: From Ampere to Ross

In 1938, the Bonneville Power Administration received $10.75 million to lay dual transmission lines connecting Bonneville Dam and Vancouver. About 10 percent of the funds were used to build Ampere, which was renamed Ross Substation in 1941.

April 12, 2025, 6:02am Clark County Life

On July 13, 1938, The Columbian’s front page announced, “Way Cleared for Building Power Lines” in a single-column block headline. Those power lines were particularly vital to Vancouver, turning it into a literal powerhouse that remains today. Read story

This week in Clark County history, April 11

April 11, 2025, 6:01am 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

The former Peter S. Ogden Elementary School, background, is seen here behind a portion of the new Peter S. Ogden Elementary School in 2019. Peter S. Ogden Elementary will drop the “Peter S.” starting next school year.

Vancouver Public Schools board cites violent history in vote to change names of Harney, Peter S. Ogden elementary schools

The former Peter S. Ogden Elementary School, background, is seen here behind a portion of the new Peter S. Ogden Elementary School in 2019. Peter S. Ogden Elementary will drop the “Peter S.” starting next school year.

April 9, 2025, 11:54am Clark County News

The Vancouver school board voted to rename two elementary schools at their Monday meeting, citing the violent histories of their namesakes. Read story

A.B. Eastman, Vancouver’s mayor and the receiver of the First National Bank, lived in this house during a local financial catastrophe. The crisis began when a bank examiner confronted bank President Charles Brown and cashier Edmund Canby about the bank’s fiscal anomalies in 1901. They panicked, fled and died by suicide, throwing the bank into financial chaos.

Clark County history: Suicides led to bank failure

A.B. Eastman, Vancouver’s mayor and the receiver of the First National Bank, lived in this house during a local financial catastrophe. The crisis began when a bank examiner confronted bank President Charles Brown and cashier Edmund Canby about the bank’s fiscal anomalies in 1901. They panicked, fled and died by suicide, throwing the bank into financial chaos.

April 5, 2025, 6:10am Clark County Life

Two respected employees of the First National Bank used the same pistol when they died by suicide in 1901. Bank President Charles Brown and Cashier Edmund Lee Canby were well respected in Vancouver. Both were married, with children. Read story

Virginia Warren.

Age is just a number: Camas historian Virginia Warren celebrates 100th birthday

Virginia Warren.

April 5, 2025, 6:00am Clark County Life

If anyone embodies the phrase “Age is just a number,” it’s Virginia Warren. Read story

This week in Clark County history, April 4

April 4, 2025, 6:06am 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

A circa 1850 daguerreotype captured Peter Skene Ogden (1794-1854) during a visit to New York. Ogden carried out George Simpson’s “fur desert” policy by over-trapping beavers in the Snake River basin to keep out American mountain men. His annual expeditions also supplied important geographic information to London cartographers.

Clark County history: Peter S. Ogden at Fort Vancouver

A circa 1850 daguerreotype captured Peter Skene Ogden (1794-1854) during a visit to New York. Ogden carried out George Simpson’s “fur desert” policy by over-trapping beavers in the Snake River basin to keep out American mountain men. His annual expeditions also supplied important geographic information to London cartographers.

March 29, 2025, 6:05am Clark County Life

As the head of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Columbia Department, George Simpson understood American settlers followed missionaries who followed fur trappers. Seeing his Columbia territory as rightly British, he took steps to stop, or at least slow, the first stage of the progression. That the HBC had absorbed John Jacob… Read story

This week in Clark County history, March 28

March 28, 2025, 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

A relaxed, happy, smiling Samuel Hill (1857-1931) sits on the porch at his Seattle home in about 1925. An eccentric millionaire and Quaker, Hill re-created Stonehenge along the Columbia River as a World War I monument and a Peace Monument in Blaine.

Clark County history: Sam Hill, happy-go-lucky eccentric millionaire and philanderer

A relaxed, happy, smiling Samuel Hill (1857-1931) sits on the porch at his Seattle home in about 1925. An eccentric millionaire and Quaker, Hill re-created Stonehenge along the Columbia River as a World War I monument and a Peace Monument in Blaine.

March 22, 2025, 6:05am Clark County Life

Sam Hill was a wealthy, happy-go-lucky eccentric millionaire and philanderer, which mixed oddly with his Quakerism. James J. Hill hired Sam Hill into the Northern Pacific Railroad legal department in 1886. Two years later, Sam married his boss’s daughter, Mary Francis Hill (making her Mary Francis Hill Hill). The couple… Read story