2009 marks the Sesquicentennial of the 1859 commencement of Walla Walla County Government and the founding of the town of Walla Walla.
Thanks for a GREAT season!
Fort Walla Walla Museum is closed to general visitation
until March 31, 2010.
Enjoy the Museum's Headquarters
Art Gallery & Research Library
weekdays 10:00 am - 4:00 pm throughout the year
except Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year's Day
The Fort Walla Walla Museum
Annual Fund Drive is Underway!
Tuesday, November 24 - This Day in Regional History
1805 Democracy in action as the Lewis & Clark expedition conducts the first election in the West, granting voting privleges to Sacajewea (Shoshone Indian wife of interpreter Toussaint Charbonneau) and York (Captain Clark's black slave). The vote determines a camp move from the north side of the Columbia River to the more protected south side. From the latter point, constructionof their winter quarters,
Fort Clatsop, soon begins.
1838 Having left Fort Walla Walla, a Hudson's Bay Company trading post on the Columbia River near Wallula Gap, the region's first Catholic missionaries, Fathers Francois Blanchett and Modeste Demers, arrive at Fort Vancouver.
1883 "Last spike" driven in the final gap between the O.R. & N. Railroad extending east from Portland and the Oregon shortline laid westward from the Union Pacific line. The ceremony occurred in Huntington near the Idaho border, marking the last of a dangerous project. The Dalles- Bonneville stretch overcame more construction problems, according to the crew,
than any similar length of track elsewhere in the U.S.
1892 First train robbery in Washington state occurs in King County as three armed men wearing masks & long coats rob twelve passengers of $1,500 in cash & $500 in jewelry on a
Northern Pacific sleeper car.
1913 Pomeroy's Seeley Theater opens with a play, Bunty Pull the Strings.
Seats range from 75¢ for standing room to $10 for box seats.
1969 Sasquatch (a Salish word for "wild man") footprints found near Colville. European fur trader David Thompson recorded a Bigfoot sighting in 1910.
1971 Skyjacker Dan 'DB' Cooper parachutes into a rainy southwest Washington night with a $200,000 ransom. Fragments of the ransom were found on a sandbar in the Columbia River by an eight-year old boy in 1980.
No trace of D.B. Cooper was ever found.
Birthdays
Historical
1632 Philosopher Benedict Spinoza.
1713 Spanish missionary Junipero Serra.
1784 12th U.S. President Zachary Taylor.
1864 Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
1867 'Ragtime' composer Scott Joplin ("Maple Leaf Rag").
1886 Founder/editor of The Little Review art & literature magazine
Margaret Anderson.
Current
1928 Hall of Fame basketball player Oscar 'The Big O' Robertson.
1941 One-time drummer for The Beatles
Pete Best.
1941 Rock musician Donald 'Duck' Dunn
(portraying himself in the movie The Blues Brothers).
1950 Actor Stanley Livingston ('Chip' in TV's "My Three Sons").
1978 Actress Katherine Heigl (Knocked Up,
'Dr. Izzie Stevens' in TV's "Grey's Anatomy").
Support the Museum with the purchase of
Fort Walla Walla Cellars
2006 Walla Walla Valley Merlot.
30% of the retail price is donated to Museum operations.
90-point rating from Wine Spectator magazine!
Maintaining the unique character of a changing community
means preserving its heritage.
See our future: Community at a Crossroads
You can be a part of carrying the past into the future!
Learn about the Museum's
Services and Facilities Enhancement Project
Architect's rendering Main Entry Elevation for the Services & Facilities Enhancement Project
See the latest edition of The Dispatch newsletter here.
Includes construction update & new building photos.
As of November 16, interior finish work is completed!
Some landscaping work needs to be finished and the 'punch list' examined.
Final clean-up is is complete and exhibit creation has begun;
Museum Store development is underway.
Fund-raising for the Pioneer Gallery, new exhibits, children’s hands-on stations, endowment,
building reserve
and other project costs continues.
More monetary and in-kind gifts, plus additional volunteer support,
are required to complete unfunded aspects for Phase I of the project.
You can help. Donate using DONATE NOW JustGive.org. Be sure to designate your preference for the Services and Facilities Enhancement Project. Undesignated donations are placed in the General Fund.
If you prefer not to donate online, consider downloading a gift form.
Mail your check and the gift form to:
Fort Walla Walla Museum
755 Myra Road
Walla Walla, WA 99362
Naming opportunities are still available!
Architect's rendering, Aerial Perspective for the completed
Services & Facilities Enhancement Project
Soldiers, Pioneers and Indian People
The award-winning book that accompanied
the Lloyd Indian Artifact Collection:
Positive Interaction between Cultures in Southeast Washington
Own a copy of this dazzling full-color book!
Washington Museum Association's
2008 Award for Publication Excellence
"an unprecedented standard of accomplishment"
-WMA Awards Committee
There's always something new to see at
Fort Walla Walla Museum!
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and around the world are available.
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site updated November 24, 2009
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