Stevens County

Historical Society, Inc.

a Private Non-profit Organization est. in 1903

(Click on photo to enlarge!)

Mics Photo Collection Drone Collection Historic Cabin and Restoration Museum Gallery

A view of the Lookout Tower.

Hixon's Castle w/ Graves Mt. Lookout

suppository maker

Another view of the Keller House

View of the Agency Cabin and porch

Ray Kresek visiting his Smokey Bear exhibit

Work to be done on lawn

laundry agitator

Musical piece - close up

cast-iron crimping - fluting tool

Calendar Plate - Colville WA

Flowers in the garden

Graves Mountain Lookout

We're here to help

Gray Newark Plate - Marcus WA

Restored wall section at Agency Cabin.

Colville Water Line

View of Graves Mountain Lookout Tower

2012 War Monument Rededication

the plants are showing off.

light reflector for doctors

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

Keller House view

View south-west from the Graves Mt. Lookout

Keller Heritage Center grounds

Demorest Prohibition Medal

Keller House Dining Room

More Smokey Bling

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

Keller House with porch flowers

Anna Keller’s Piano

Keller House Spring

used for planting seeds into the ground

fake tree is always festive

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

Indian camp at Kettle Falls

Brewster Ferry at Gerome

Ray Kresek looking at the Smokey Bear exhibits

Marian Garvey addition announcement

1909 parade in Colville

Benches at the Agency Cabin

HIxson Castle winter

View from near the base of the Lookout Tower.

mannequin parts

Side view Keller House at Christmas

Trees removed at Agency Cabin

beautiful collection

Laundry scrubbing board and musical instrument for a jug band

Beautiful Fall colors!

cuff and collar holder

Flowers keep getting prettier each day

Blooming Flowers

Chicken Quillotine

Hixson Castle and Gnomes 2

Repairing inner tubes - Early Ford Vehicles

Trappers Cabin view

two dresses modeled after wedding dresses

view of colville

Boyscout backpack and assorted honors and badges

Quilt fundraiser for Historic Colville Indian Agency restoration

Dresses on display 4

Plate - Gifford WA

Spice Chest Radio

West side of Agency Cabin lawn looking north.

View of museum and lookout tower

Boyscout shirt and honors

View north from the Graves Mt. Lookout

blacksmith's wheel

Handicap Parking

Fort Colville US No. 2 Fort Colville drawing

early wall mounted telephone

mannequins everywhere

manual carpet sweeper

Piano - back side

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

U. S. Postal Service mailbag

Graves Mt. Lookout in the spring

Anna Keller’s Piano

Keller House reindeer

the Keller House awaits your visit

Law Enforcement Medal of Honor

Old Marcus 1911

Dresses on display 3

Post Office Mural

High above the lookout tower and museum grounds

Keller House at Christmas

Trappers Cabin - new stairs

expandable cup - open

cat calendar 1912

Boardman and Gray Piano

Homestead Cabin Interior

Straw for drinking herbal tea

bank teller coin tray and dispenser

Keller House Spring Bouquet

Cream separator discs

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

West side of cabin with windows put back in.

Happy Birthday Smokey

View of north side of Agency Cabin grounds

getting ready for christmas

small gauge or mining type

1845 Geyer drawing of Tshimakain Mission

1916 Colville Band on Main Street

Antique Brass Rope Splicer Splicing Tool

Colville Fire Department

full sized metal clip

late-1890s dust bellow

Colville Leader Store wagon

Another gorgeous day at the museum

Entering Heritage Park

pottery piece 2

Charles working on leather.

Keller House visitor

Braille Typewriter

Educational Board

Keller House at Christmas

Dietrick display

turkeys on parade

Homstead Cabin Interior

Underwood Typewriter Company Enameled Metal Expert Typist Award Pins

Model Keller House - Front View

Dedication of HBC Fort Colville monument

Agency Cabin’s new floor

spirit of Stevens County

Hixson Castle and Gnomes

Fall view of museum entrance

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

toothpick holder

Girl Scout Dress with sash and badges

Working Music Box

projecting microscope

wooden and metal wheelchair

St Paul Mission

Drone view of the museum grounds

View of flower, trapper’s cabin and dynamite shack

Heritage Park grounds

World War I draftees

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

Cleveland Mine near Blue Creek - 1899 - 1900

Harness Rein Spreaders

Native American multi-use weight

Fort Colville US No. 2 Fort Colville drawing

Heritage Park memorial

Keller House - young visitors

french fry cutter

Historic Colville Indian Agency with porch removed

Soap or butter mold

shoehorn made out of an animal's horn

Calendar Plate - Ferdinand ID

Beautiful morning!

Calendar Plate - Colville WA 2

Historic photo of Colville Indian Agency

Lights at Agency Cabin

used to measure fabric in a retail store

A beautiful Fourth of July

Paul Kane drawing of Indians at Kettle Falls

Homestead Cabin

Used for reloading shot gun shells

View south from the Graves Mt. Lookout

Painting in the Learning Center has begun.

Original square wood joints

Aerial View of Kettle Falls before Grand Coulee Dam

Allen Camp - Valley Washington

Christmas tree and Santa

Tshimakain Monument at Ford

Ace lightbulb fixer

Used to force medicine down a sheep's throat

barbed wire puller

various pine boughs

Harvey Hospital, 1905

Brannock Device

close up treadle engraving machine

Volunteers working at Indian Agency Cabin

Smokey relaxing

backside metal clip

Early telephone

Hixson Castles and Lookout

Beautiful day today

Volunteers reinstalling windows at Indian Agency Cabin

fleams for bleeding cattle

Entrance to Museum

old, odd and often overlooked

Valley Washington - 1911

Salvation Army uniform

four string banjo 2

flower vase for on an antique buggy or carriage

Street side of the cabin after windows put back in.

Keller House Flowers

doll collection

Historic Colville Indian Agency raised

the tour has started

Necklace and pins

Model Keller House

fancy men's garter

Historic Colville Indian Agency Photograph

intended to moisten packing tape.

1897 Smith Premier Typewriter No. 2

Black Jack Cabin

Flowers and Well

St Paul Mission

first buttercups of the season

four string banjo

Evening Dress Display

The rain is doing wonders for the flowers.

LaSota Mill Bunkhouse

View of the Colville Valley

There's more to Smokey than just a costume

Agency Cabin lights and apple tree

Local residents enjoying Memorial Day Sunday at the Keller House

Display of Dresses

Phonograph - record player needle

Historic photo of St Paul Mission

Museum hours (May 1 thru Sep 30)

Keller House - winter

Saw Tooth Setter Swage Tool

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

Stannus Keller Hardware

Christmas sunshine at the Keller House

Fort Colville Monument

Piano - Inner Workings

Decker & Son Piano

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

Calendar Plate - St. Louis MO

very vintage bowling ball

When the curator starts a new display

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

Daguerreotype . Framed in gold

One of the first fire extinguishers

Early piece - Bottom View

Miner’s Cabin and dynamite shack

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

Historic Colville Indian Agency with porch removed

Majestic Keller House

Lower museum grounds

Educational Board letters

Agency Cabin with support for roof

Falls at Kettle Falls

Graves Mountain Lookout

grapefruit slicer

Hixson Castles and Graves Mt. Lookout

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

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

Model Keller House - Side View

Is it christmas already?

milking hobbles

Winter is approaching

Keller House with Visitors

Rouse Lead and Rule cutter

glove stretchers

used to load shot into a gun

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

We welcome all visitors

Trappers Cabin relocated

Hemming bird - Sewing bird

Some of our local wildlife

Smokey Bear - Full Size

flowers on the back side of the Keller House

Wooden Holder - Side view

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

Another gorgeous day

Indian Paintings on Deadman Rock - Tum Tum Washington

kerosene egg incubator

Dresses on display 2

Graves Mt. Lookout - Winter

Keller House Dining

1905 Stevens County Courthouse

Did you know we have a small store at the museum

Valley Washington - 1911

Multi-use barrel

Graves Mt. Lookout

benches - contributed and installed by the BoyScouts

Quillasascut Grange Drill Team

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

Kettle Falls 1910

Piano - side view

Even the flowers are excited

Women's Christian Temperance Union pin

Chrismas is coming!

University of Idaho checking dendrochronology at McCrea Cabin

BSA. Order of the Arrow

Anna Keller's piano

2021 View of cabin with clinking and sealing done

View of Graves Mt. Lookout

Card catalog from the Coliville library

hardware presentation

Display Dresses

kettle falls 4x6

One of the newest members of our society

Visitor at Music Box

Hixson Castle with Grave Mt. Lookout

HIxson Castle wintertime

Flowers on a stick

beautiful dresses on display

View of the back side of the Indian Agency Cabin

Agency Cabin Restored Porch

View of Lookout Tower and Carriage House

Pig Hair Scraper

Chinese tea brick

Heritage Park Flowers

Dominion Stages passing in mountain

Beautiful Green Dress

Candle holders to clip onto a christmas tree

a treadle engraving machine

Keller House and flowers

early coat hanger

beak guards to keep a chicken from pecking

Decker & Son Piano - Full size

hand-held cream separator

Restoration at the Indian Agency Cabin

Christmas is coming!

Dresses on display

mushroom - used to hold a sock in place

Keller House view