March 21, 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
March 15, 2025, 6:08am Clark County Life
On Highway 99 between Interstate 5 access ramps and 63rd Street is a turn-off rising up a grassy hill to the Bonneville Power Administration’s Ross Complex. Read story
March 14, 2025, 6:08am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
Harry Humason glided his finger over a worn page in a world atlas. He paused when his fingernail brushed against a small, yellowed Post-it note with a handwritten message reading simply, “Frankfurt.” Read story
March 14, 2025, 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
March 8, 2025, 6:09am Clark County Life
The Steamer Vancouver brought a band and a crowd to watch Captain James Turnbull launch the newest Columbia River steamer, the Fannie Troup, on Sept. 30, 1864. Built in east Portland by James and W.H. Troup, his son-in-law, the riverboat measured 123 feet long with a 20-foot beam. Its stern… Read story
March 7, 2025, 6:07am Clark County Life
Re-Imagined Radio, which airs old and new radio programs announced Tuesday that it has launched a YouTube channel. Read story
March 7, 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
March 1, 2025, 6:03am Clark County Life
By the time sailing ship Capt. Robert Gray named and claimed the Columbia River for the United States in 1792, European diseases already had decimated the Pacific Northwest Native American population. Later outbreaks — influenza (1836), malaria (1830s), measles (1830s and 1840s), smallpox (1781 to 1863) and shigellosis (1844) —… Read story
February 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
February 22, 2025, 6:05am Clark County Life
On Oct. 1, 1905, railroad baron James J. Hill and a party of executives arrived in Vancouver about noon. Residents greeted them with whistles, bells, cheers and the 14th Infantry band played. President Charles M. Levey of the Portland & Seattle Railway organized the party. Hill passed through the crowd… Read story