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23 stories
- Vancouver’s Heart of Flame
A catastrophic fire destroys the business district of Vancouver, Washington, leaving small shopkeepers destitute and the city in shock.
- Vancouver Devastated by Blazing Inferno
A massive fire has razed the entire business district of Vancouver, Washington Territory, leaving the community in shock and rebuilding efforts underway.
- The Day the Slash Hills Burned
A devastating fire sweeps through the rural settlement, consuming homes, crops, and winter stores, leaving families to pick through the ashes.
- Vancouver Paper Acknowledges Sympathy for Expelling Chinese Residents
A 1885 dispatch from the Vancouver Independent reveals the chilling, unchecked spread of anti-Chinese sentiment as communities across the Washington Territory debated the forced removal of residents.
- The Battle for the St. James Mission Land
Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln denies a church petition for land, sparking a debate over the government's military reservation boundaries in Vancouver.
- The Political Battle for the New West
As Washington prepares for statehood, national parties prepare for a heated contest over legislative control and future congressional influence.
- Steerage Passengers Stage an Armed Strike for Better Food
Twenty-five Texas cowboys on a steamship to Portland organized an armed takeover of the kitchen to force the captain to improve steerage rations.
- Tragedy at the Sawmill: A Father’s Grief
A young sawmill worker loses his life in a horrifying industrial accident near Vancouver, Washington.
- A Father’s Tragic Fall at the Vancouver Barracks
While working in the tower of the government water works, an engineer slipped and fell to his death in full view of his son.
- The Sad End of 'Shannon the Wag'
After surviving a previous brush with death, a Vancouver man found his final end in a lonely shed—and the town was in no mood to wait for a second resurrection.
- A Miraculous Rescue at the Well
A two-month-old infant survives a twenty-one-foot fall into a Clarke County well in a harrowing ordeal.
- The Temperance Stand Against the Liquor Interest
A political meeting in Vancouver, Washington, sparks a fierce debate over the influence of the liquor trade, the liberty of the press, and the character of local leadership.
- Infant Remains Discovered on Salmon Creek
A grim discovery by a U.S. Deputy Marshal sparks an investigation near a local mill.
- The Man Who Bought a City for $5 an Acre
A Vermont native traded his old life for 80 acres in Seattle, proving that with one horse and sheer grit, the Pacific Northwest could be tamed.
- Congress Moves to Forfeit Railroad Land Grants
A House committee prepares to claw back millions of acres from the Central Pacific Railroad, citing failed construction promises.
- The Illegal Prize Fight on the River
While crowds flocked to the banks of the river in Washington Territory, authorities looked on as a brutal prizefight turned into an early-round knockout.
- The Blasting Accident at the Railway Camp
A railroad contractor working on the Canadian Pacific line met a sudden, tragic end while clearing stumps near Vancouver.
- Tragedy at Brush Prairie
After the long illness and death of his wife, a grieving man takes his own life in the room where she lay.
- A Fatal Miscalculation in the Vancouver Timberlands
A logger is killed at his work, a grim reminder of the high human cost of the Pacific Northwest’s booming timber industry in 1886.
- The Miracle of Fannie McCann
A lifelong invalid, confined to a chair for twenty-two years, found her voice and language only in her final hours.
- Old Soldiers Gather in Vancouver
Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic meet in Washington Territory to honor General Grant and discuss the future of their department.
- The Battle Against 'Charivari' Noise
When the city council of Vancouver, Washington, decided that raucous wedding serenades were 'disgraceful' to the public order, they took a stand against the tradition of the charivari.
- The Boomtown That Almost Wasn't
In 1888, the residents of Camas were aggressively lobbying to become the primary rail gateway to the Columbia River, betting their future on a bridge that would connect Seattle to Portland.