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Ferry boat, "City of Vancouver" making connection between Vancouver and Portland.

In 1981, the "Orchards Freedom Tree" at Orchards United Methodist Church was adorned with a yellow ...

The Vancouver waterfront pictured in 1905. An ambitious $1.3 billion commercial and residential waterfront project, nearly a decade ...

The 1902 Yacolt burn, the largest forest fire in state history, laid waste to 239,000 acres ...

Arthur W. Calder, dressed in a prune bag, participates in the Prune Festival.

Mayor N.E. Allen crowns Mary Pierce at the 1923 Prune Festival. Betty Watts and Gerldine Brown ...

When this picture was taken in 1907, just after the Baptist Church was built in Battle ...

After 23 months of labor, the Interstate Bridge opened in February 1917 with a ribbon cutting ...

Shortly after takeoff, a thin, olive-skinned man motioned for the flight attendant from the back of the plane. When she approached, the man slipped her a note and whispered, "Read that." The flight attendant, thinking the man just wanted a date, stuck the piece of paper in her pocket and began to walk off. The man stopped her.

By DEAN BAKER, Columbian staff writer December 4, 2000 The state of Washington plans to salute American Indians ...

By DEAN BAKER, Columbian staff writer November 6, 2000 A new day of relations between American Indians and ...

By DEAN BAKER, Columbian staff writer January 19, 2001 Vancouver historian Barb Kubik was sleepy but ecstatic Thursday ...

Days like these cause a lot of persons in Clark County to look northeastward apprehensively. They are the state and federal forest service employes whose job it is to protect the forests against fire. And they have reason.

Between its start and World War II, Vancouver generally gained slowly in size, spreading gradually away ...

A lunch-hour tornado raked roofs, shredded trees, downed power lines and jumbled traffic Thursday in Hazel Dell and Fruit Valley.

Our readers remember the tornado of April 5, 1972 Scene of devastation as Waremart grocery store lies ...

But for a single vote of the Territorial Supreme Court 100 years ago, press correspondents now ...

January 31, 1930, the Columbia River froze solid, so solid under the I-5 bridge that Clarence ...

On March 19, 1825, voyageurs of the Hudson's Bay Company, the great British fur trading concern, ...

Campsites around Clark County Original names for some landmarks are in parentheses. from The Columbian archives Camp 1 Nov. ...

Next time you're stuck on the Interstate 5 bridge in heavy traffic, consider this: Up until ...

Fort Vancouver, birthplace of the Oregon Country, is where the outpost of the British Empire was ...

Vanport Flood Felix Baranovich who is the only Vancouverite known to have been an eyewitness to the ...

Colleen Bauman - Clark County History 1988 - Published by Fort Vancouver Historical Society of Clark County- ...