Clark County Historical Museum Speaker Series “Fourth Plain Forward: Building Community”

Clark County Historical Museum’s 2022 Speaker Series continues on Sept. 1 with “Fourth Plain Forward: Building Community” presented by Fourth Plain Forward director, Paul Burgess, Clark County Historical Museum public historian, Katie Bush, and Clark County Historical Museum public history intern, Tanaka Axberg.

When people think of Vancouver, the city is often associated with a 19th century military fort, the Columbia River and a connection to the Hudson’s Bay Company and the fur trade. Rarely are the stories of the neighborhoods developed during and post-World War II provided the same focus. Yet the people who lived, worked and created these new communities in places such as Vancouver’s Fourth Plain Corridor are as intrinsic to Vancouver today as those who first made contact with the Indigenous people of the region nearly 125 years ago. The Fourth Plain project is a collaboration between Fourth Plain Forward, Washington State University Vancouver and the Clark County Historical Museum to shed light on these local narratives. In this presentation, Burgess, Bush and Axberg discuss the community’s history as well as current and future plans for the project.

The event will occur in person at the Clark County Historical Museum, 1511 Main St., Vancouver. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the event begins at 7 p.m. Admission is $5. Seniors and students are $4. Children under 18 are $3. The evening is free for museum members, veterans and active-duty military personnel. For more information, contact the museum at 360-993-5679 or outreach@cchmuseum.org.