History
Youtube channel documents local cemeteries, history
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dan Bieltz, a Beaverton resident, was looking for ways to fill time after being furloughed at his job. With an interest in history, Bieltz, 41, started visiting Oregon’s pioneer cemeteries with a camera and began uploading videos to Youtube. “I knew I liked history, and I[Read More…]
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County May 26, 1922
Dispatches from History: Political ads from the 1922 primary elections
With “polls” closing at 8 p.m., and an expected delay in results as ballots trickle in over the next week and beyond, why not take a moment to look at some political ads… from 1922? These advertisements appeared in the May 11, 1922 edition of the Washington County News-Times. Back[Read More…]
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County May 11, 1922
Snoop into the lives of people who lived in Gales Creek, Banks, Timber, Kansas City, and other far west rural communities in 1922.
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County May 4, 1922
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County February 16, 1922
The newspapers and other print jobs of the time would have been printed on this type of machine. Photo taken from April 28, 1921 edition of the Washington County News-Times. We rely on subscribers to keep the lights on in our little newsroom. Join us with a digital subscription today,[Read More…]
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County February 9, 1922
The newspapers and other print jobs of the time would have been printed on this type of machine. Photo taken from April 28, 1921 edition of the Washington County News-Times. We rely on subscribers to keep the lights on in our little newsroom. Join us with a digital subscription today,[Read More…]
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County February 2, 1922
The newspapers and other print jobs of the time would have been printed on this type of machine. Photo taken from April 28, 1921 edition of the Washington County News-Times. We rely on subscribers to keep the lights on in our little newsroom. Join us with a digital subscription today,[Read More…]
Column | The Diaries of Esther Lilly Hundley: January 15 – 21, 1928
The farm that Esther Lilly Hundley and her family lived on in Gales Creek We’re returning to January, 1928 in Esther Lilly Hundley’s personal diaries which chronicle her life on the family’s original homestead and farm in the Fir Creek community of Gales Creek from 1928 to 1960. Cast of[Read More…]