January 22, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life
Famous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson rode through Vancouver streets on the city’s reddest firetruck along with the mayor and a reporter. Mayor J.P. Kiggins dubbed her honorary fire chief to one-up Los Angeles making McPherson an honorary fireman. McPherson had traveled from the Angelus Temple she founded in 1918 to… Read story
January 20, 2023, 6:05am 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
January 15, 2023, 6:00am Clark County Life
In the late summer of 1931, Clark County farmers poured milk on the roads, most of it confiscated from boycotted distributors’ trucks. Vancouver-Portland milk distributors dropped milk prices low enough it threatened farmers’ businesses. Read story
January 13, 2023, 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
January 11, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life
Gerda J. Mattson knew how to bake. Born in 1900 in Kronoby, Finland, she later emigrated to the United States in 1906, catching sight of the Statue of Liberty rising out of the mists on Ellis Island. She lived in Astoria, Ore., for a few years before moving with her… Read story
January 6, 2023, 5:10am 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
January 1, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life
A fire raging westward from Camas toward Fort Vancouver in 1844 troubled James Douglas. It hungrily gobbled timber, pasture and farmland from Camas to Lake Vancouver for four days. It also burned a Hudson Bay Company bridge. Douglas wrote to Dr. John McLoughlin about how the blaze alarmed him. Read story
December 25, 2022, 6:05am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive
Among the 21 buildings lining Officers Row, one is far more noticeable due to the facade’s grandiosity. Its interior unveils an equally rich past. Read story
December 25, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life
Judge A. L. Miller opened a 1910 fraud trial with three hours of excruciating legal commentary. He was trying to unwind the knotty skein of facts involving multiple fraudulent actions perpetrated by Maud Johnson involving a chain of shakedown offenses. Between 1907 and 1909, she repeatedly fleeced most of the… Read story
December 23, 2022, 6:05am 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