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

Winter is approaching

Working Music Box

St Paul Mission

Educational Board letters

2021 View of cabin with clinking and sealing done

Fort Colville Monument

When the curator starts a new display

Trappers Cabin view

Display of Dresses

The rain is doing wonders for the flowers.

Flowers on a stick

bank teller coin tray and dispenser

Old Marcus 1911

Kettle Falls 1910

Braille Typewriter

Hixson Castle and Gnomes 2

Happy Birthday Smokey

toothpick holder

Antique Brass Rope Splicer Splicing Tool

Keller House Spring Bouquet

barbed wire puller

benches - contributed and installed by the BoyScouts

Trappers Cabin - new stairs

Volunteers reinstalling windows at Indian Agency Cabin

Entrance to Museum

doll collection

1845 Geyer drawing of Tshimakain Mission

A view of the Lookout Tower.

Graves Mt. Lookout

Museum hours (May 1 thru Sep 30)

Falls at Kettle Falls

Paul Kane drawing of Indians at Kettle Falls

intended to moisten packing tape.

mushroom - used to hold a sock in place

mannequin parts

Card catalog from the Coliville library

We're here to help

More Smokey Bling

Anna Keller's piano

We welcome all visitors

spirit of Stevens County

a treadle engraving machine

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

Another view of the Keller House

four string banjo 2

Chinese tea brick

Flowers and Well

Keller House Flowers

High above the lookout tower and museum grounds

Some of our local wildlife

HIxson Castle wintertime

There's more to Smokey than just a costume

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

late-1890s dust bellow

various pine boughs

Christmas is coming!

Ray Kresek looking at the Smokey Bear exhibits

Miner’s Cabin and dynamite shack

Quilt fundraiser for Historic Colville Indian Agency restoration

View of museum and lookout tower

Painting in the Learning Center has begun.

early wall mounted telephone

View of the back side of the Indian Agency Cabin

Keller House at Christmas

Historic Colville Indian Agency Photograph

Fort Colville US No. 2 Fort Colville drawing

used to measure fabric in a retail store

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

Brannock Device

Keller House with porch flowers

Blooming Flowers

Historic photo of Colville Indian Agency

Hemming bird - Sewing bird

Work to be done on lawn

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

Homstead Cabin Interior

small gauge or mining type

Dresses on display 2

milking hobbles

Chicken Quillotine

Anna Keller’s Piano

Law Enforcement Medal of Honor

Candle holders to clip onto a christmas tree

Beautiful day today

Historic Colville Indian Agency with porch removed

View from near the base of the Lookout Tower.

1909 parade in Colville

Boyscout shirt and honors

Used for reloading shot gun shells

grapefruit slicer

Plate - Gifford WA

Stannus Keller Hardware

expandable cup - open

Majestic Keller House

Agency Cabin with support for roof

blacksmith's wheel

backside metal clip

Trappers Cabin relocated

four string banjo

fleams for bleeding cattle

Street side of the cabin after windows put back in.

Keller House visitor

Allen Camp - Valley Washington

World War I draftees

Graves Mountain Lookout

cuff and collar holder

Daguerreotype . Framed in gold

Side view Keller House at Christmas

View north from the Graves Mt. Lookout

Trees removed at Agency Cabin

Post Office Mural

Wooden Holder - Side view

Keller House Spring

Calendar Plate - St. Louis MO

Homestead Cabin

Girl Scout Dress with sash and badges

One of the newest members of our society

Soap or butter mold

View of Graves Mountain Lookout Tower

Did you know we have a small store at the museum

Valley Washington - 1911

Keller Heritage Center grounds

kettle falls 4x6

Piano - back side

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

Heritage Park Flowers

Dominion Stages passing in mountain

Aerial View of Kettle Falls before Grand Coulee Dam

view of colville

beautiful dresses on display

View of north side of Agency Cabin grounds

Flowers keep getting prettier each day

Calendar Plate - Colville WA

Restored wall section at Agency Cabin.

Hixson Castles and Lookout

kerosene egg incubator

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

Agency Cabin Restored Porch

Graves Mountain Lookout

Tshimakain Monument at Ford

Valley Washington - 1911

Keller House - young visitors

pottery piece 2

flower vase for on an antique buggy or carriage

HIxson Castle winter

1916 Colville Band on Main Street

projecting microscope

Another gorgeous day at the museum

french fry cutter

Graves Mt. Lookout - Winter

Early piece - Bottom View

2012 War Monument Rededication

Is it christmas already?

Fall view of museum entrance

Heritage Park memorial

Smokey Bear - Full Size

first buttercups of the season

Keller House - winter

very vintage bowling ball

Model Keller House - Side View

fake tree is always festive

Smokey relaxing

Homestead Cabin Interior

1897 Smith Premier Typewriter No. 2

Saw Tooth Setter Swage Tool

Keller House at Christmas

Straw for drinking herbal tea

Used to force medicine down a sheep's throat

Christmas sunshine at the Keller House

Piano - Inner Workings

Historic Colville Indian Agency raised

Lower museum grounds

Restoration at the Indian Agency Cabin

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

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

Salvation Army uniform

Local residents enjoying Memorial Day Sunday at the Keller House

two dresses modeled after wedding dresses

Quillasascut Grange Drill Team

1905 Stevens County Courthouse

Boardman and Gray Piano

Original square wood joints

Women's Christian Temperance Union pin

Even the flowers are excited

View of Lookout Tower and Carriage House

Piano - side view

Dedication of HBC Fort Colville monument

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

Brewster Ferry at Gerome

Graves Mt. Lookout in the spring

Benches at the Agency Cabin

Decker & Son Piano - Full size

Ray Kresek visiting his Smokey Bear exhibit

suppository maker

View south from the Graves Mt. Lookout

Entering Heritage Park

Model Keller House - Front View

flowers on the back side of the Keller House

Cream separator discs

Indian Paintings on Deadman Rock - Tum Tum Washington

mannequins everywhere

Chrismas is coming!

Cleveland Mine near Blue Creek - 1899 - 1900

Harvey Hospital, 1905

early coat hanger

Spice Chest Radio

the plants are showing off.

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

Hixson Castle with Grave Mt. Lookout

View of the Agency Cabin and porch

Hixson Castle and Gnomes

Hixon's Castle w/ Graves Mt. Lookout

Colville Leader Store wagon

Gray Newark Plate - Marcus WA

Dietrick display

Dresses on display

Christmas tree and Santa

Underwood Typewriter Company Enameled Metal Expert Typist Award Pins

Volunteers working at Indian Agency Cabin

hand-held cream separator

wooden and metal wheelchair

Flowers in the garden

beak guards to keep a chicken from pecking

Rouse Lead and Rule cutter

U. S. Postal Service mailbag

Historic Colville Indian Agency with porch removed

Handicap Parking

BSA. Order of the Arrow

full sized metal clip

Keller House Dining

Hixson Castles and Graves Mt. Lookout

manual carpet sweeper

Dresses on display 3

shoehorn made out of an animal's horn

Decker & Son Piano

Pig Hair Scraper

laundry agitator

Drone view of the museum grounds

Fort Colville US No. 2 Fort Colville drawing

beautiful collection

Keller House reindeer

Another gorgeous day

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

Dresses on display 4

LaSota Mill Bunkhouse

West side of cabin with windows put back in.

West side of Agency Cabin lawn looking north.

light reflector for doctors

One of the first fire extinguishers

Historic photo of St Paul Mission

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

St Paul Mission

hardware presentation

Calendar Plate - Colville WA 2

the Keller House awaits your visit

Anna Keller’s Piano

Educational Board

View of the Colville Valley

Early telephone

cast-iron crimping - fluting tool

Visitor at Music Box

University of Idaho checking dendrochronology at McCrea Cabin

Indian camp at Kettle Falls

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

Keller House with Visitors

Beautiful morning!

Colville Fire Department

close up treadle engraving machine

Demorest Prohibition Medal

Colville Water Line

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

Phonograph - record player needle

Keller House and flowers

turkeys on parade

Keller House view

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

Beautiful Fall colors!

Black Jack Cabin

used to load shot into a gun

Beautiful Green Dress

getting ready for christmas

View of Graves Mt. Lookout

fancy men's garter

glove stretchers

View of flower, trapper’s cabin and dynamite shack

Charles working on leather.

Repairing inner tubes - Early Ford Vehicles

cat calendar 1912

Multi-use barrel

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

Lights at Agency Cabin

A beautiful Fourth of July

Display Dresses

Native American multi-use weight

old, odd and often overlooked

used for planting seeds into the ground

Agency Cabin’s new floor

Necklace and pins

Keller House Dining Room

Harness Rein Spreaders

Model Keller House

Evening Dress Display

Musical piece - close up

Heritage Park grounds

Keller House view

Marian Garvey addition announcement

Agency Cabin lights and apple tree

View south-west from the Graves Mt. Lookout

Calendar Plate - Ferdinand ID

Ace lightbulb fixer

the tour has started

Laundry scrubbing board and musical instrument for a jug band

Boyscout backpack and assorted honors and badges