“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.”

Celebrate Veterans with the Tualatin Historical Society.

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

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.

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

Some well known faces meet with Tualatin Chamber’s new CEO.

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What was highschool life like in 1916 Tualatin? Have a peek!

Tualatin Mayor Frank Bubenik discusses Tualatin’s state of the City now emerging from the pandemic

Thanks to an unexpected discovery at a Lake Oswego construction site, a new historical artifact will soon be on display outside the Tualatin Heritage Center. A two-ton chunk of rhyolite, a type of igneous rock that is not normally found in Oregon, is now believed to have been deposited in the Willamette Valley by the Missoula Floods around 15,000 years ago. It was found during excavation of the new Lakeridge Junior High School site in Lake Oswego.

The mastodon has figured prominently in the American imagination since the nation’s founding. Thomas Jefferson, who was famously obsessed with the animals, had bones laid out for study in the White House and is even rumored to have instructed Lewis and Clark to gather evidence of living elephants in the interior of North America.

Larry McClure is still a small-town boy at heart so he and his wife Ellie hit the jackpot when they decided to settle in Tualatin in May 1972.

Nami Sasaki - From Japan to Oregon to a relocation camp and back home again

Nami Sasaki’s in-laws had emigrated from Japan and in 1914 bought a 100-acre hops farm south of Tualatin. By 1939, Nami and husband Ajiro (Art) took over managing the farm and grew mostly berries. During WW2, the family was forced to move to an Idaho relocation camp, along with other West Coast Japanese-Americans.

Remembering John "Jack" Broome, a Tualatin legend. Jack passed peacefully in his sleep on June 17, 2020.

Norm Parker's service in Korea and more of his history.

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Enjoy a video interview with Loyce Martinazzi on Tualatin’s History.