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Fort Vancouver Historic Site

Cover for Interstate 5 connecting Fort Vancouver to downtown gets $30M boost

January 14, 2025, 1:20pm Business

Plans to put a lid on Interstate 5, or at least a section of it, recently got a $30 million boost. Read story

Former Clark College president, Vancouver Barracks commander Bob Knight remembered in memorial service

January 13, 2025, 3:09pm Business

Family, friends and community members gathered Monday morning to remember Robert “Bob” Kennedy Knight, former president of Clark College and commander of the U.S. Army’s Vancouver Barracks. Read story

In this December 2009 photo, Doug Halsey demonstrates how firearms were used at Fort Vancouver. In the 1840s, firearms competitions were common during New Year’s celebrations.

Clark County history: In the fur trade, New Year’s Day was the season’s beloved holiday

January 4, 2025, 6:07am Clark County Life

In the fur trade, New Year’s Day, not Christmas, was the season’s more beloved holiday. Before Christmas and after New Year’s Day, Hudson’s Bay Company Fort Vancouver employees and families enjoyed an extended year-end celebration. The company released employees from work, allowing them a raucous holiday period crowded with events.… Read story

It's easy to miss the "Firsts" monument that emerges from some shrubs at the west end of Officers Row in Vancouver.

Monumental questions: Washington historical society assesses monuments, starting with Vancouver’s ‘Firsts’

November 30, 2024, 6:14am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

Whose “civilization” is it, anyway? Read story

Thanksgiving and Christmas menus from the Vancouver Barracks archives.

Menus in Fort Vancouver archives tell tales of Thanksgiving meals past

November 28, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

Ninety-seven years ago, as World War I waged in Europe, soldiers at Vancouver Barracks answered a much more festive call. They reported for dinner. Read story

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Fort Vancouver National Historic Site Facility Manager Alex Patterson, left, and Superintendent Tracy Fortmann, center, explore the refurbished Building 993 along with Sean Johnson of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The former U.S. Army barracks used to house as many as 180 soldiers. Now it houses the regional offices of two federal agencies: the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Fort Vancouver barracks’ $16.5M renovation preserves building’s historical appearance

November 14, 2024, 6:06am Clark County Life

A recently completed $16.5 million renovation of the 1907 “double infantry” barracks building on the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site retains its pleasingly vintage vibe. Read story

Cooking it old school: Fort Vancouver kitchen gives a lesson in 1840s kitchens

Volunteer Madison Glenn lends a hand in the kitchen at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.

October 12, 2024, 6:13am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

I could smell woodsmoke from Fort Vancouver’s kitchen as soon as I got out of my car in the Fifth Street visitor lot. The aroma led me to the weathered wood building behind the reconstructed Chief Factor’s House, where John McLoughlin and his family would have lived in the fort’s… Read story