October 20, 2023, 5:45am 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
October 14, 2023, 6:15am Clark County Life
Cpl. Tubby, a dog from Ridgefield, died protecting his handler in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Susan Orlean mentioned him in her book “Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend,” which tells the story of the many dogs with that name, starting with the Rin Tin Tin… Read story
October 13, 2023, 7:01pm Clark County News
A crowd of veterans and their families filled the Heathman Lodge in Vancouver on Friday to welcome Eunji Seo, consul general for the Republic of Korea based in Seattle. Read story
October 12, 2023, 12:15pm Business
Construction crews have uncovered a brick cistern in downtown Vancouver that could date back to the 19th century. Read story
October 7, 2023, 6:03am Clark County Life
In Washington, urban and rural voters split in 1914 over alcohol. By an 18,632 margin, voters that year approved an initiative prohibiting liquor production, distribution and sale — but not consumption. The vote split between “wet” big cities and “dry” rural towns. Yet moonshiners in rural Clark County would illegally… Read story
October 6, 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
September 30, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
Near where the Washington School for the Deaf stands today, George Simpson, governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and John McLoughlin, chief factor of the company’s Columbia District, picked the original site for Fort Vancouver in 1824. Simpson’s territory covered all lands west of the Rockies to Hawaii, north to… Read story
September 29, 2023, 5:15am 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
September 23, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life
The 1846 West Point graduate Capt. George B. McClellan came to the Vancouver Barracks in 1853 after serving in the War with Mexico. An engineering officer since his graduation, the Army assigned McClellan to Isaac Stevens, Washington Territory governor. Stevens wanted the captain to survey the Cascade Mountains, probing probable… Read story
September 22, 2023, 5:32am 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