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National Ice Age Floods Trail in Tualatin
National Ice Age Floods Trail in Tualatin

Join Jerianne Thompson, Library Director; Equity & Inclusion Officer for Tualatin and board member of the Tualatin Ice Age Foundation on this interesting insight into our city’s role in the new Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail.

2023 Heritage Evening Auction, Raffle Results and Match Donations.
2023 Heritage Evening Auction, Raffle Results and Match Donations.

Pictures sent to members and will be online soon!

Tualatin Elementary 4th-graders become part of a ‘living history’
Tualatin Elementary 4th-graders become part of a ‘living history’

Tualatin Elementary 4th-graders become part of a ‘living history’

2nd Annual Arbor Month Program
2nd Annual Arbor Month Program

The Tualatin Historical Society celebrates our city’s Arbor Month with 2nd annual poetry contest

Althea Pratt-Broome’s Legacies Live On
Althea Pratt-Broome’s Legacies Live On

A local legend has passed. Read more about how this lady’s footprint went beyond Tualatin’s city limits.

Even with increased costs, THS nets $9,602.78 from our 2022 Heritage Evening—a modest improvement over ‘21.
Even with increased costs, THS nets $9,602.78 from our 2022 Heritage Evening—a modest improvement over ‘21.

Have a look at how THS fared in our most recent Heritage Evening.

Kurt Krause and his family were Durham ‘pioneers’
Kurt Krause and his family were Durham ‘pioneers’

THS Board Member Kurt Krause reflects on life in early Durham

Covid Delay Doesn’t Dampen The Grange’s 125th Anniversary.
Covid Delay Doesn’t Dampen The Grange’s 125th Anniversary.

The Tualatin Grange at 125 is still going strong

Memorial Day 2022 at Winona Cemetery
Memorial Day 2022 at Winona Cemetery

Memorial Day 5/31/2022 at Winona Cemetery. This fast paced patriotic event featuring local members of our community starts with a missing Man Maneuver fly over at 10:45 a.m. Afterwards there will be a free barbecue picnic at Tualatin Community Park.

Althea Pratt-Broom at 100
Althea Pratt-Broom at 100

A local legend turned 100 this year. Althea Pratt-Broom saved the historic Sweek House in 1955 and founded what would become Willowbrook Art Camp there in 1978. She and her late husband Jack Broome founded the Friends of the Tualatin Wetlands with it's roots in 1976 and by 1981 would be know at the Wetlands Conservancy. Get an inside peek of Althea and Tualatin's only building in Tualatin on the register of National Historic places with this 2009 interview with our very own Larry McClure.

Tualatin Historical Society’s first annual poetry contest
Tualatin Historical Society’s first annual poetry contest

Celebrate Arbor month with us and the city of Tualatin. Learn more about our first annual Arbor Day Poetry Contest and how to win a tree, an annual membership and your place in history.

Meet the Heritage Center’s new manager
Meet the Heritage Center’s new manager

Rick Wheelock brings a love of history and many more things needed in his new role as Manager of the Heritage Center.

Mastodon’s Teeth Taken From Well
Mastodon’s Teeth Taken From Well

REPRINT: The Oregon Journal, October 31, 1937

Mastodon’s Teeth Taken From Well

Widely separated areas in Oregon recently have given up evidences of wild life in the state in prehistoric times. Near the grass toots of a new well he started on his farm near Tualatin, Charles M. Roberts, chief of police there, uncovered some teeth and parts of the skeleton of a mastodon. The skeleton rested in a low rich onion growing field, where not more that 20,000 years ago, believes Dr. H. C. Dake, Portland student of paleontology, the mastodon may have been a victim of the last great ice age which extended down nearly into Oregon, forcing these great mammals to migrate to the warmer climates of the south.

A real life Saint Nick at the Heritage Center. 🎅
A real life Saint Nick at the Heritage Center. 🎅

When Tualatin was barely a one stop sign town in the late 1940s and 1950s, the volunteer fire department would use its ladders to string lights on a tall redwood across Boone Ferry from today’s CI (then the Spot Tavern). Tualatin historians Loyce Martinazzi and Yvonne Addington remember families would gather around a big bonfire nearby to sing familiar carols. Elves from the fire department would then help Santa distribute donated toys they had repaired. Local church women sewed new clothing for cast-off dolls especially for children in need. See how we honored this tradition in 2021….

Ice Age Foundation makes progress towards Tualatin-based Interpretive Center
Ice Age Foundation makes progress towards Tualatin-based Interpretive Center

There is an increased public interest in identifying and learning about the current relationship to the Ice Ages, which still affects our lands today. Area collectors and public places now open to the public have simply run out of room to preserve and display our ancient history properly. The Tualatin Ice Age Foundation was created to finance and provide space for local collections and displays and learn about Tualatin’s ancient history and the surrounding areas over 10,000 years ago.

Heritage Center Wins Backyard Habitat Certification
Heritage Center Wins Backyard Habitat Certification

“The site assessors were impressed by our plant identification signs and the two updated guidebooks for visitors coordinated by THC manager Cindy Frost. Also attention-getting was weed removal work regularly done by Karin Olson and Margie Torgeson over the past several years.”

Tualatin Historical Society Celebrates our Veterans for the whole month of November.
Tualatin Historical Society Celebrates our Veterans for the whole month of November.

Celebrate Veterans with the Tualatin Historical Society.

Thanks to you our 2021 Heritage Evening was a success.
Thanks to you our 2021 Heritage Evening was a success.

The 2021 Heritage Evening netted over $9000 thanks to the continue support of our members and community. See details here.

Tualatin’s Winona Grange Celebrates 125 Years
Tualatin’s Winona Grange Celebrates 125 Years

Tualatin’s oldest community organization was founded long before Tualatin was incorporated in 1913. Twenty-four-farm family members met in 1895 to organize the Grange and chose the name Winona to honor the deceased eldest daughter of J. R. C. Thompson.

Tualatin resident Joe Lipscomb served with the Marine Corps on the front lines of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
Tualatin resident Joe Lipscomb served with the Marine Corps on the front lines of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).

Read more about Joe Lipscomb and his service in a war that has never been declared over.

 

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Sandra Johnson Lafky

Sandra Johnson Lafky (1956-2024)

“We can do no great things, only small things with great love.” Mother Theresa

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George “Corky” Andrews

We lost one of the titans of Tualatin History last month. Have a peek at what we have put together so far. More to come!

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National Ice Age Floods Trail in Tualatin

Join Jerianne Thompson, Library Director; Equity & Inclusion Officer for Tualatin and board member of the Tualatin Ice Age Foundation on this interesting insight into our city’s role in the new Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail.

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Memorial Day 2022 at Winona Cemetery

Memorial Day 5/31/2022 at Winona Cemetery. This fast paced patriotic event featuring local members of our community starts with a missing Man Maneuver fly over at 10:45 a.m. Afterwards there will be a free barbecue picnic at Tualatin Community Park.

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Althea Pratt-Broom at 100

A local legend turned 100 this year. Althea Pratt-Broom saved the historic Sweek House in 1955 and founded what would become Willowbrook Art Camp there in 1978. She and her late husband Jack Broome founded the Friends of the Tualatin Wetlands with it's roots in 1976 and by 1981 would be know at the Wetlands Conservancy. Get an inside peek of Althea and Tualatin's only building in Tualatin on the register of National Historic places with this 2009 interview with our very own Larry McClure.

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