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Battle Ground High School marching band on June 16, 1956.

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

1888 Lewisville, Washington - Blacksmith Frank Lyon, his wife Catherine, and their three children. The girl ...

Vancouver probably about the time of World War I. Probably shot from the Ford Bldg., which ...

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 ...

Union Grade School in 1909. The American flag shown as the backdrop in this old school ...

This historical Vancouver photo shows the Lee Erickson home on Evergreen Highway. It was formerly the ...

Bud Anderson, left, and Frank DuPuis, squared off drawing the wide-eyed admiration of this group shown ...

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

Enjoying the warm weather out at Battle Ground Lake this year? This is what the lake ...

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 ...

Can you guess where in Vancouver this photo was taken?

Unless you are a hiker or horseback rider, the Tarbell Trail probably means nothing to you.

Anna Leverich's major contribution to her city was donation of a park that still carries her name.

Jobs in the timber business have mostly vanished but nostalgia for the old times still thrives in the Yacolt/Amboy/Chelatchie Prairie area in northeast Clark County.

By DEAN BAKER, Columbian staff writer November 22, 2000 McGOWAN -- There's little here to catch the eye ...

By DEAN BAKER, Columbian staff writer July 16, 2001 Government Island once had a beautiful name, and someday ...

By DEAN BAKER, Columbian staff writer December 15, 2000 WASHOUGAL -- Dozens of boaters, water skiers and sunbathers ...

By DEAN BAKER, Columbian staff writer January 19, 2001 RIDGEFIELD -- A mile northwest of Pacific Wood Treating's ...

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

Pearson Field is the oldest operating airfield in the United States dating to a dirigible landing in 1905. Lincoln Beachey piloted the dirigible, Gelatine, on this flight which was also the first aerial crossing of the Columbia River.

Some say that it is the "oldest apple tree" in the Northwest. Some even say it may be the oldest on the west coast.

Clark County names. Where did they come from? "Onomastics" is the science of naming things or people. ...