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Clark County History

This week in Clark County history, March 15

March 15, 2024, 5:37am 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 this 1942 photo, American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese are shown at the start of the Bataan Death March. A Vancouver High School graduate and Army chaplain, Ralph W.E. Brown, was among the prisoners. He ministered to soldiers until his death in January 1945 in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

Clark County history: Vancouver High graduate received WWII Distinguished Service Cross

In this 1942 photo, American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese are shown at the start of the Bataan Death March. A Vancouver High School graduate and Army chaplain, Ralph W.E. Brown, was among the prisoners. He ministered to soldiers until his death in January 1945 in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

March 9, 2024, 6:02am Clark County Life

Three months after the invasion of the Philippine Islands and the Battle of Bataan, the Japanese captured nearly 78,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war. Japanese soldiers marched them for six days down the Bataan peninsula to a railhead, denying them food and water before dispersing them to internment camps.… Read story

This week in Clark County history, March 8

March 8, 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

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

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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