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Fabric of our Lives—Maybe the best program ever at the Heritage Center?
Our Quilt Posse has been very busy. Visit the Heritage Center Thursday 3/10 1-3pm; Friday 3/11 10-2pm or Saturday 10-4pm
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’
THS Board Member Kurt Krause reflects on life in early Durham
Tualatin Historical Society Celebrates International Women’s Day.
Recorded in 2010 this program tells the story of famous women in Tualatin's History...it's Herstory. But we don’t stop there. We also celebrate women having current impact on Tualatin. Join us as we salute 15 women who’ve made Tualatin what it is today.
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
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
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. 🎅
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
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
“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.
Celebrate Veterans with the Tualatin Historical Society.
Over 100 years of representation in one room!
Some well known faces meet with Tualatin Chamber’s new CEO.
Thanks to the Mazamas Organization THS now has an original 1916 Tualatin High School “Tuala” Yearbook
A must see!
What was highschool life like in 1916 Tualatin? Have a peek!
Loyce Martinazzi on Tualatin History
A must see!
Enjoy a video interview with Loyce Martinazzi on Tualatin’s History.
Capture the magic of our 15th Annual Heritage Evening