Joseph “Bunco” Kelly, a notorious figure in Portland, Oregon’s history, carved a unique niche for himself in the late 19th[…]
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Antiques, Local History and Outdoor Adventures
Joseph “Bunco” Kelly, a notorious figure in Portland, Oregon’s history, carved a unique niche for himself in the late 19th[…]
Read moreOn the Tuesday morning of June 12, 1962, everything appeared normal at the U.S. Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island. It had[…]
Read moreBattle Ground, Washington was named for a battle… that never happened. In the 1850’s, significant tension arose between American Indians[…]
Read moreLast year, since Tonya already had a house, I sold my house and took the profits and bought 5 acres[…]
Read moreI love to hunt for and collect antiques from Vancouver, Washington’s past. The antiques give me a glimpse into Vancouver’s[…]
Read moreDead Horse Cave is an extensive cave system outside of Trout Lake, Washington in Skamania County. It is the largest lava tube cave in the continental U.S. with 14,441 feet of passageways.
Read moreThis is my newest antique map that I bought from a dealer in the U.K. Right away I liked it[…]
Read moreWhen people think of a prison island they usually think of Alcatraz Penitentiary in the San Francisco Bay. But California isn’t the only state with a prison island. Washington’s Puget Sound is the home to another, older prison island.
Read moreThe Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar was a fifty-cent piece struck intermittently by the United States Bureau of the Mint between 1926 and 1939.[…]
Read moreThe newest addition to my early pioneer postcard collection is a postal card from the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The 1893[…]
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