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If you you attended you’ll enjoy seeing these beautiful quilts again. And if you didn’t, enjoy the show put together by our Photographer Al Stewart—it is almost as good as having been there.

Tualatin From the Beginning with Loyce Martinazzi Part 2: In My Lifetime

Sandra Lafky Carlson speaks with Loyce Martinazzi live at the Heritage Center about the early years in Tualatin in the second of a two part series.

Tualatin From the Beginning with Loyce Martinazzi Part 1: The Early Years

Loyce Martinazzi speaks live at the Heritage Center about the early years in Tualatin in the first of a two part series.

Tualatin Food Pantry—fighting food insecurity in our community for 20 years.

“From the moment we opened, it was all about how we help the community—not judge those in need”

(photo by Josh Kulla Tuatatin Life)

2024 Heritage Evening—a good time was had by all

Capture the magic of our 15th Annual Heritage Evening

Fossil Fest 2024

Fossil Fest was at the Heritage Center August 6th. Check out this annual program that brought in hundreds of people.

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.

Pictures sent to members and will be online soon!

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

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

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.

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

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 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

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

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….

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Rare Geological Find is now at Heritage Center

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.

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The mastodon has figured prominently in the American imagination

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.

Matt Kleinke 12/1/20 Matt Kleinke 12/1/20

Living Legends: Larry McClure

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.

Matt Kleinke 11/7/20 Matt Kleinke 11/7/20

The Immortal Life of Nami Sasaki

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.