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

View from near the base of the Lookout Tower.

Historic photo of St Paul Mission

View of museum and lookout tower

Chicken Quillotine

Fall view of museum entrance

Law Enforcement Medal of Honor

Fort Colville Monument

cat calendar 1912

Women's Christian Temperance Union pin

Entrance to Museum

Flowers and Well

various pine boughs

suppository maker

Hixon's Castle w/ Graves Mt. Lookout

Visitor at Music Box

Demorest Prohibition Medal

Salvation Army uniform

Allen Camp - Valley Washington

fake tree is always festive

spirit of Stevens County

Phonograph - record player needle

intended to moisten packing tape.

Homstead Cabin Interior

hand-held cream separator

Handicap Parking

Original square wood joints

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

Keller House view

Drone view of the museum grounds

Beautiful Green Dress

the plants are showing off.

Another view of the Keller House

Restoration at the Indian Agency Cabin

projecting microscope

Brannock Device

Beautiful morning!

1897 Smith Premier Typewriter No. 2

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

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

1845 Geyer drawing of Tshimakain Mission

early coat hanger

beautiful collection

Happy Birthday Smokey

View of flower, trapper’s cabin and dynamite shack

Straw for drinking herbal tea

Side view Keller House at Christmas

french fry cutter

Stannus Keller Hardware

One of the newest members of our society

small gauge or mining type

Local residents enjoying Memorial Day Sunday at the Keller House

Native American multi-use weight

the Keller House awaits your visit

Soap or butter mold

bank teller coin tray and dispenser

Keller House visitor

Keller House view

Girl Scout Dress with sash and badges

The rain is doing wonders for the flowers.

A beautiful Fourth of July

View of the Agency Cabin and porch

Brewster Ferry at Gerome

Chrismas is coming!

Beautiful day today

Underwood Typewriter Company Enameled Metal Expert Typist Award Pins

cast-iron crimping - fluting tool

cuff and collar holder

Boyscout backpack and assorted honors and badges

Black Jack Cabin

Display of Dresses

the tour has started

Keller House Dining

Trees removed at Agency Cabin

Early telephone

Anna Keller’s Piano

Multi-use barrel

Used to force medicine down a sheep's throat

manual carpet sweeper

used to load shot into a gun

Harvey Hospital, 1905

Entering Heritage Park

Hixson Castle with Grave Mt. Lookout

West side of cabin with windows put back in.

Work to be done on lawn

Trappers Cabin relocated

Old Marcus 1911

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

Aerial View of Kettle Falls before Grand Coulee Dam

Hixson Castle and Gnomes 2

backside metal clip

Volunteers working at Indian Agency Cabin

Agency Cabin with support for roof

beautiful dresses on display

Calendar Plate - Ferdinand ID

Historic Colville Indian Agency Photograph

View of Graves Mountain Lookout Tower

getting ready for christmas

Some of our local wildlife

close up treadle engraving machine

a treadle engraving machine

Benches at the Agency Cabin

Piano - Inner Workings

View of north side of Agency Cabin grounds

Flowers in the garden

glove stretchers

beak guards to keep a chicken from pecking

U. S. Postal Service mailbag

Volunteers reinstalling windows at Indian Agency Cabin

Indian Paintings on Deadman Rock - Tum Tum Washington

Gray Newark Plate - Marcus WA

mannequins everywhere

Hemming bird - Sewing bird

Graves Mt. Lookout

Boardman and Gray Piano

expandable cup - open

Working Music Box

Even the flowers are excited

Plate - Gifford WA

Decker & Son Piano - Full size

early wall mounted telephone

View north from the Graves Mt. Lookout

Trappers Cabin - new stairs

Harness Rein Spreaders

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

Used for reloading shot gun shells

Model Keller House

Saw Tooth Setter Swage Tool

Trappers Cabin view

When the curator starts a new display

West side of Agency Cabin lawn looking north.

Keller House with porch flowers

Calendar Plate - Colville WA

Blooming Flowers

Early piece - Bottom View

Beautiful Fall colors!

late-1890s dust bellow

Evening Dress Display

Piano - back side

Anna Keller's piano

Flowers on a stick

doll collection

There's more to Smokey than just a costume

Colville Leader Store wagon

Homestead Cabin Interior

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

Valley Washington - 1911

Falls at Kettle Falls

View of the back side of the Indian Agency Cabin

Musical piece - close up

One of the first fire extinguishers

2012 War Monument Rededication

Ray Kresek looking at the Smokey Bear exhibits

Tshimakain Monument at Ford

Daguerreotype . Framed in gold

Lights at Agency Cabin

1909 parade in Colville

Keller House - young visitors

Model Keller House - Side View

Heritage Park grounds

University of Idaho checking dendrochronology at McCrea Cabin

four string banjo 2

Dresses on display 3

Historic Colville Indian Agency with porch removed

Restored wall section at Agency Cabin.

Keller House reindeer

Flowers keep getting prettier each day

fleams for bleeding cattle

Keller House Dining Room

Post Office Mural

Kettle Falls 1910

Heritage Park memorial

Cream separator discs

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

HIxson Castle winter

Display Dresses

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

Hixson Castles and Lookout

More Smokey Bling

Colville Fire Department

View south-west from the Graves Mt. Lookout

St Paul Mission

four string banjo

Laundry scrubbing board and musical instrument for a jug band

We welcome all visitors

A view of the Lookout Tower.

Necklace and pins

mannequin parts

Decker & Son Piano

Christmas is coming!

blacksmith's wheel

Hixson Castle and Gnomes

wooden and metal wheelchair

Boyscout shirt and honors

Candle holders to clip onto a christmas tree

View of Graves Mt. Lookout

Lower museum grounds

mushroom - used to hold a sock in place

Christmas tree and Santa

Keller House at Christmas

Agency Cabin Restored Porch

two dresses modeled after wedding dresses

Educational Board letters

2021 View of cabin with clinking and sealing done

hardware presentation

Keller House and flowers

Colville Water Line

Rouse Lead and Rule cutter

Ray Kresek visiting his Smokey Bear exhibit

Graves Mountain Lookout

grapefruit slicer

Ace lightbulb fixer

Keller House - winter

Dietrick display

LaSota Mill Bunkhouse

Keller House Spring

Historic photo of Colville Indian Agency

Is it christmas already?

Street side of the cabin after windows put back in.

Dedication of HBC Fort Colville monument

Piano - side view

Heritage Park Flowers

fancy men's garter

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

pottery piece 2

Another gorgeous day

1905 Stevens County Courthouse

Historic Colville Indian Agency with porch removed

View of Lookout Tower and Carriage House

Agency Cabin’s new floor

1916 Colville Band on Main Street

Graves Mt. Lookout in the spring

Fort Colville US No. 2 Fort Colville drawing

Museum hours (May 1 thru Sep 30)

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

We're here to help

barbed wire puller

old, odd and often overlooked

High above the lookout tower and museum grounds

Graves Mountain Lookout

Christmas sunshine at the Keller House

Keller House Flowers

Smokey relaxing

view of colville

flower vase for on an antique buggy or carriage

Model Keller House - Front View

Smokey Bear - Full Size

World War I draftees

Hixson Castles and Graves Mt. Lookout

kerosene egg incubator

HIxson Castle wintertime

Antique Brass Rope Splicer Splicing Tool

laundry agitator

Did you know we have a small store at the museum

Marian Garvey addition announcement

Homestead Cabin

Fort Colville US No. 2 Fort Colville drawing

milking hobbles

Agency Cabin lights and apple tree

Educational Board

Paul Kane drawing of Indians at Kettle Falls

Pig Hair Scraper

Keller Heritage Center grounds

Another gorgeous day at the museum

Cleveland Mine near Blue Creek - 1899 - 1900

Winter is approaching

Painting in the Learning Center has begun.

kettle falls 4x6

benches - contributed and installed by the BoyScouts

Anna Keller’s Piano

Keller House Spring Bouquet

Repairing inner tubes - Early Ford Vehicles

Indian camp at Kettle Falls

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

Wooden Holder - Side view

Dresses on display 4

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

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

Dresses on display 2

Charles working on leather.

Dominion Stages passing in mountain

Quillasascut Grange Drill Team

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

Miner’s Cabin and dynamite shack

Historic Colville Indian Agency raised

View south from the Graves Mt. Lookout

turkeys on parade

Keller House with Visitors

Majestic Keller House

shoehorn made out of an animal's horn

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

very vintage bowling ball

toothpick holder

Calendar Plate - Colville WA 2

Calendar Plate - St. Louis MO

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

flowers on the back side of the Keller House

St Paul Mission

light reflector for doctors

used to measure fabric in a retail store

Chinese tea brick

first buttercups of the season

Quilt fundraiser for Historic Colville Indian Agency restoration

View of the Colville Valley

full sized metal clip

used for planting seeds into the ground

Braille Typewriter

Graves Mt. Lookout - Winter

BSA. Order of the Arrow

Card catalog from the Coliville library

Dresses on display

Keller House at Christmas

Valley Washington - 1911

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