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Clark County History

This week in Clark County history, March 22

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

James Delmage “J.D.” Ross (1872-1939) was photographed surrounded by flowers about 1930, likely while working for the Security Exchange Commission under Joseph Kennedy. When President Franklin D.

Clark County history: Bonneville Power Administration’s Ross Complex

James Delmage “J.D.” Ross (1872-1939) was photographed surrounded by flowers about 1930, likely while working for the Security Exchange Commission under Joseph Kennedy. When President Franklin D.

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

Harry Humason, 99, will be returning to Europe this May, where he served in World War 2, to be an honored guest at the Pilsen Liberation Festival in the Czech Republic.

‘In war, nobody wins and everybody loses’: 99-year-old Vancouver resident helped liberate Frankfurt from Nazis

Harry Humason, 99, will be returning to Europe this May, where he served in World War 2, to be an honored guest at the Pilsen Liberation Festival in the Czech Republic.

March 14, 2025, 6:08am Clark County Life

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

This week in Clark County history, March 14

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

Vancouver steamship Captain James Turnbull and his nephew William Turnbull were well-known skippers of the Fannie Troup, which crossed the Columbia River between Portland and Vancouver. He navigated the Fannie Troup until 1874.

Clark County history: Two steamer captains, one steamer

Vancouver steamship Captain James Turnbull and his nephew William Turnbull were well-known skippers of the Fannie Troup, which crossed the Columbia River between Portland and Vancouver. He navigated the Fannie Troup until 1874.

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

Rebekah Sharpe performs from a script during a rehearsal for the Valentine’s Day Re-Imagined Radio show on Monday night, Feb. 5, 2019.

Vancouver’s Re-Imagined Radio launches YouTube channel

Rebekah Sharpe performs from a script during a rehearsal for the Valentine’s Day Re-Imagined Radio show on Monday night, Feb. 5, 2019.

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

This Week in Clark County history, March 7

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

An artist’s imagining of a Native American shaman, thought to influence the unseen good and evil spirits, administering curatives to a patient. Neither Native nor European treatments stopped major disease outbreaks in the 19th century in the Lower Columbia region.

Clark County history: Diseases decimated Native populations

An artist’s imagining of a Native American shaman, thought to influence the unseen good and evil spirits, administering curatives to a patient. Neither Native nor European treatments stopped major disease outbreaks in the 19th century in the Lower Columbia region.

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

This week in Clark County history, March 1

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

A Vancouver Weekly illustration shows Mayor E.G. Crawford introducing “Miss Vancouver” to millionaire railroader James J. Hill during his 1905 visit to the city. Before his October arrival, Hill had maneuvered behind the scenes to gain the route along the north bank of the Columbia River, even gaining influence over the Clark County’s Portland, Vancouver & Yakima Railroad.

Clark County history: J. J. Hill’s 1905 visit to Clark County

A Vancouver Weekly illustration shows Mayor E.G. Crawford introducing “Miss Vancouver” to millionaire railroader James J. Hill during his 1905 visit to the city. Before his October arrival, Hill had maneuvered behind the scenes to gain the route along the north bank of the Columbia River, even gaining influence over the Clark County’s Portland, Vancouver & Yakima Railroad.

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