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Clark County History

A self-portrait of Paul Kane (1810-1871), who sketched and painted First Nations and Metis people on trips across Canada and later through America&rsquo;s Hudson&rsquo;s Bay Company territory in 1846-1847, staying at Fort Vancouver for several months.

Clark County history: Paul Kane

A self-portrait of Paul Kane (1810-1871), who sketched and painted First Nations and Metis people on trips across Canada and later through America&rsquo;s Hudson&rsquo;s Bay Company territory in 1846-1847, staying at Fort Vancouver for several months.

March 2, 2024, 6:00am Clark County Life

Thrown over his horse’s head while pursuing a bison, a stunned Paul Kane quickly remounted, thanks to the Indigenous men who’d caught his pony. Read story

This week in Clark County history

March 1, 2024, 6:00am 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

This Week in Clark County History

February 16, 2024, 6:02am Clark County Life

This Week in Clark County History Read story

A crowd of 20,000 people gathered at Pearson Airfield and along the shore of the Columbia River for its 1925 dedication. As far as can be established, its namesake, Lt. Alexander Pearson, never set foot on the field or in Vancouver.

Clark County history: Army Air Service Lt. Oakley Kelly

A crowd of 20,000 people gathered at Pearson Airfield and along the shore of the Columbia River for its 1925 dedication. As far as can be established, its namesake, Lt. Alexander Pearson, never set foot on the field or in Vancouver.

February 10, 2024, 6:02am Clark County Life

Army Air Service Lt. Oakley Kelly finagled the War Department into naming Vancouver’s airport after fellow aviation pioneer Lt. Alexander Pearson, who died Sept. 2, 1924, testing a prototype aircraft for the Army. Read story

This week in Clark County history

February 9, 2024, 6:00am 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

York, a slave in bondage to William Clark during the voyage of the Corps of Discovery, is depicted in this 1912 painting, &ldquo;Lewis and Clark at Three Forks,&rdquo; by E.S. Paxson. No actual image of York is known to exist.

Clark County history: York

York, a slave in bondage to William Clark during the voyage of the Corps of Discovery, is depicted in this 1912 painting, &ldquo;Lewis and Clark at Three Forks,&rdquo; by E.S. Paxson. No actual image of York is known to exist.

February 3, 2024, 6:06am Clark County Life

The enslaved York was the only Black member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. William Clark inherited him from his father and wrote about him in the expedition’s journals, sometimes negatively. Besides the journal references, historians know little of York’s life before or after the expedition. Yet even in the… Read story

This week in Clark County history

February 2, 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

Vancouver journalist and pilot Leverett Richards flew for 54 years and claimed never to have scratched or bitten a passenger, no matter how tempted.

Clark County history: Leverett Richards, aviation reporter

Vancouver journalist and pilot Leverett Richards flew for 54 years and claimed never to have scratched or bitten a passenger, no matter how tempted.

January 27, 2024, 6:02am Clark County Life

When the military tested a high-altitude B-52 at low levels in the hot turbulence of Eastern Oregon’s high desert in 1959, the giant bomber crashed. The Oregonian sent Leverett Richards, its aviation reporter since 1935, to cover the breaking news and get pictures. The 288-mile trip could have meant six… Read story

This week in Clark County history

January 26, 2024, 6:00am 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

In 1908, the year the bell tower was added, the congregation gathered in front of the Salmon Creek Methodist Church dressed in their Sunday finest. The church later was moved from this location to the east side of Northeast Highway 99.

Clark County history: Salmon Creek United Methodist Church

In 1908, the year the bell tower was added, the congregation gathered in front of the Salmon Creek Methodist Church dressed in their Sunday finest. The church later was moved from this location to the east side of Northeast Highway 99.

January 20, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life

In 1940, the construction of Highway 99 nearly demolished one of the oldest church buildings in Clark County. The Salmon Creek United Methodist Church had to be moved to its current location on the east side of the road. Today, those driving northbound along Northeast Highway 99 by the creek… Read story