Stevens County

Historical Society, Inc.

a Private Non-profit Organization est. in 1903

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Mics Photo Collection Drone Collection Historic Cabin and Restoration Museum Gallery

Quilt fundraiser for Historic Colville Indian Agency restoration

Flowers in the garden

Hudson Bay Company’s Fort Colvile (note the difference spelling of Colvile)

Keller House Spring Bouquet

Keller House - young visitors

Hixson Castle and Gnomes 2

flowers on the back side of the Keller House

Stannus Keller Hardware

We welcome all visitors

Homestead Cabin Interior

Miner’s Cabin and dynamite shack

Clayton Photo Gallery: Bird's Eye View of Clayton Washington

HIxson Castle winter

Harvey Hospital, 1905

Early telephone

Hemming bird - Sewing bird

The national federation of business & professional women's club, inc.

a treadle engraving machine

Even the flowers are excited

Daguerreotype . Framed in gold

Dietrick display

Tshimakain Monument at Ford

Keller House reindeer

beak guards to keep a chicken from pecking

Historic photo of Colville Indian Agency

flower vase for on an antique buggy or carriage

backside metal clip

Antique Brass Rope Splicer Splicing Tool

Chinese tea brick

Black Jack Cabin

small gauge or mining type

intended to moisten packing tape.

Card catalog from the Coliville library

manual carpet sweeper

Anna Keller’s Piano

Post Office Mural

High above the lookout tower and museum grounds

Keller House with Visitors

fake tree is always festive

Entrance to Museum

Decker & Son Piano - Full size

Side view Keller House at Christmas

At Eastern Washington University, Lucy Covington is honored. We also proudly display photos of her in our museum.

One of the first fire extinguishers

soapstone and was used as a heating pad for feet and beds

early wall mounted telephone

Agency Cabin lights and apple tree

Fort Colville US No. 2 Fort Colville drawing

Chicken Quillotine

Volunteers working at Indian Agency Cabin

Cream separator discs

Colville Leader Store wagon

Piano - side view

St Paul Mission

Colville Photo Collection: Group of Women who made Bandages and Dressings during WW1

Wooden Holder - Side view

Local residents enjoying Memorial Day Sunday at the Keller House

mushroom - used to hold a sock in place

cornhusker, i.e. used for removing corn from its cob.

U. S. Postal Service mailbag

view of colville

Saw Tooth Setter Swage Tool

BSA. Order of the Arrow

A view of the Lookout Tower.

french fry cutter

Allen Camp - Valley Washington

The rain is doing wonders for the flowers.

View of the Colville Valley

Educational Board letters

View north from the Graves Mt. Lookout

'steam vent' to vent steam so your pie crust wouldn't get soggy

HIxson Castle wintertime

Valley Washington - 1911

various pine boughs

Spice Chest Radio

View south-west from the Graves Mt. Lookout

Necklace and pins

Graves Mountain Lookout

Majestic Keller House

Another view of the Keller House

Heritage Park grounds

hardware presentation

mannequin parts

Aerial View of Kettle Falls before Grand Coulee Dam

View from near the base of the Lookout Tower.

Agency Cabin’s new floor

Phonograph - record player needle

Dresses on display 2

A beautiful Fourth of July

Homstead Cabin Interior

Agency Cabin Restored Porch

2021 View of cabin with clinking and sealing done

Pig Hair Scraper

Homestead Cabin

barbed wire puller

When the curator starts a new display

View of Graves Mt. Lookout

Flowers keep getting prettier each day

Keller House visitor

Boardman and Gray Piano

Dedication of HBC Fort Colville monument

Marian Garvey addition announcement

Used to force medicine down a sheep's throat

Laundry scrubbing board and musical instrument for a jug band

1909 parade in Colville

Paul Kane drawing of Indians at Kettle Falls

One of the newest members of our society

Display of Dresses

Decker & Son Piano

cast-iron crimping - fluting tool

Charles working on leather.

Beautiful Fall colors!

pottery piece 2

Trappers Cabin relocated

Keller House Dining

used for planting seeds into the ground

Model Keller House - Side View

Anna Keller's piano

Indian camp at Kettle Falls

Heritage Park memorial

View of north side of Agency Cabin grounds

Lower museum grounds

Quillasascut Grange Drill Team

Underwood Typewriter Company Enameled Metal Expert Typist Award Pins

Dresses on display 4

lace bobbin, with spangles at its base to stop it rolling about on a lace pillow

laundry agitator

Old town in Stevens County (I think this is Hunters)

1916 Colville Band on Main Street

Original square wood joints

Hixson Castle and Gnomes

Educational Board

Another gorgeous day at the museum

Richardson, Dwight; Lowe, Al; Miller, Cary, W; Monroe, John; Bullard, Frank;

Kettle Falls 1910

milking hobbles

Anna Keller’s Piano

spirit of Stevens County

Colville Water Line

beautiful collection

Street side of the cabin after windows put back in.

bank teller coin tray and dispenser

2012 War Monument Rededication

Historic Colville Indian Agency raised

Straw for drinking herbal tea

Historic photo of St Paul Mission

early eye cup used to put medicine or saline solutions into the eye

View of the back side of the Indian Agency Cabin

Trees removed at Agency Cabin

Keller Heritage Center grounds

Chrismas is coming!

Lights at Agency Cabin

Painting in the Learning Center has begun.

Rouse Lead and Rule cutter

Evening Dress Display

turkeys on parade

four string banjo 2

We aren't sure if the deer are clumsy or they really don't like the gnomes

Early piece - Bottom View

Agency Cabin with support for roof

Calendar Plate - Colville WA 2

blacksmith's wheel

Benches at the Agency Cabin

Heritage Park Flowers

Dresses on display 3

Boyscout shirt and honors

There's more to Smokey than just a costume

Hixon's Castle w/ Graves Mt. Lookout

Did you know we have a small store at the museum

Keller House Dining Room

Calendar Plate - St. Louis MO

shoehorn made out of an animal's horn

Happy Birthday Smokey

Calendar Plate - Ferdinand ID

Brannock Device

Beautiful day today

Blooming Flowers

Christmas tree and Santa

light reflector for doctors

beautiful dresses on display

View of flower, trapper’s cabin and dynamite shack

late-1890s dust bellow

Candle holders to clip onto a christmas tree

More Smokey Bling

Restored wall section at Agency Cabin.

Soap or butter mold

doll collection

the plants are showing off.

University of Idaho checking dendrochronology at McCrea Cabin

View of Lookout Tower and Carriage House

View of museum and lookout tower

Girl Scout Dress with sash and badges

projecting microscope

Salvation Army uniform

St Paul Mission

Graves Mt. Lookout - Winter

glove stretchers

Museum hours (May 1 thru Sep 30)

old, odd and often overlooked

We're here to help

Keller House view

Dresses on display

Harness Rein Spreaders

Some of our local wildlife

World War I draftees

West side of cabin with windows put back in.

hand-held cream separator

Law Enforcement Medal of Honor

Trappers Cabin - new stairs

Old Marcus 1911

suppository maker

Winter is approaching

close up treadle engraving machine

Volunteers reinstalling windows at Indian Agency Cabin

used to load shot into a gun

Display Dresses

Historic Colville Indian Agency Photograph

Is it christmas already?

Christmas sunshine at the Keller House

fleams for bleeding cattle

1897 Smith Premier Typewriter No. 2

Entering Heritage Park

1845 Geyer drawing of Tshimakain Mission

Flowers on a stick

Native American multi-use weight

Handicap Parking

Plate - Gifford WA

full sized metal clip

1905 Stevens County Courthouse

Visitor at Music Box

Smokey relaxing

Christmas is coming!

Beautiful morning!

fancy men's garter

Working Music Box

Keller House at Christmas

getting ready for christmas

Keller House with porch flowers

Fall view of museum entrance

View of the Agency Cabin and porch

Used for reloading shot gun shells

Multi-use barrel

expandable cup - open

Gray Newark Plate - Marcus WA

Fort Colville US No. 2 Fort Colville drawing

Women's Christian Temperance Union pin

Keller House view

Trappers Cabin view

Beautiful Green Dress

Restoration at the Indian Agency Cabin

Drone view of the museum grounds

mannequins everywhere

Graves Mt. Lookout

grapefruit slicer

Smokey Bear - Full Size

Colville Fire Department

Flowers and Well

Model Keller House

Brewster Ferry at Gerome

Another gorgeous day

Keller House - winter

four string banjo

West side of Agency Cabin lawn looking north.

Dominion Stages passing in mountain

Repairing inner tubes - Early Ford Vehicles

Keller House at Christmas

Musical piece - close up

Ray Kresek visiting his Smokey Bear exhibit

Work to be done on lawn

University of Idaho Professor Harley Grant and his students recreating the historic pose at the cabin

Piano - back side

used to measure fabric in a retail store

benches - contributed and installed by the BoyScouts

Valley Washington - 1911

first buttercups of the season

early coat hanger

the tour has started

Ace lightbulb fixer

wooden and metal wheelchair

Braille Typewriter

View of Graves Mountain Lookout Tower

Demorest Prohibition Medal

Graves Mountain Lookout

Fort Colville Monument

I asked him to smile but he went with the stoic look

kettle falls 4x6

LaSota Mill Bunkhouse

Falls at Kettle Falls

Hixson Castle with Grave Mt. Lookout

Piano - Inner Workings

Indian Paintings on Deadman Rock - Tum Tum Washington

cat calendar 1912

Calendar Plate - Colville WA

two dresses modeled after wedding dresses

Historic Colville Indian Agency with porch removed

Model Keller House - Front View

Keller House Spring

the Keller House awaits your visit

toothpick holder

Graves Mt. Lookout in the spring

very vintage bowling ball

Keller House Flowers

Hixson Castles and Lookout

Historic Colville Indian Agency with porch removed

Boyscout backpack and assorted honors and badges

cuff and collar holder

Keller House and flowers

View south from the Graves Mt. Lookout

kerosene egg incubator

Cleveland Mine near Blue Creek - 1899 - 1900

Volunteers re-installing doors and windows at the Indian Agency Cabin

Hixson Castles and Graves Mt. Lookout

Ray Kresek looking at the Smokey Bear exhibits