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

Majestic Keller House

Brewster Ferry at Gerome

Visitor at Music Box

View of the back side of the Indian Agency Cabin

Christmas sunshine at the Keller House

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

the Keller House awaits your visit

kettle falls 4x6

Phonograph - record player needle

St Paul Mission

Boyscout shirt and honors

Harness Rein Spreaders

Working Music Box

Evening Dress Display

Historic Colville Indian Agency with porch removed

Graves Mountain Lookout

Piano - Inner Workings

getting ready for christmas

Historic Colville Indian Agency with porch removed

Graves Mt. Lookout in the spring

intended to moisten packing tape.

2021 View of cabin with clinking and sealing done

Rouse Lead and Rule cutter

Agency Cabin with support for roof

Straw for drinking herbal tea

Hixon's Castle w/ Graves Mt. Lookout

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

cast-iron crimping - fluting tool

Hemming bird - Sewing bird

1845 Geyer drawing of Tshimakain Mission

Aerial View of Kettle Falls before Grand Coulee Dam

expandable cup - open

Girl Scout Dress with sash and badges

West side of cabin with windows put back in.

View south from the Graves Mt. Lookout

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

Keller House reindeer

Quilt fundraiser for Historic Colville Indian Agency restoration

Tshimakain Monument at Ford

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

Historic Colville Indian Agency Photograph

Colville Fire Department

early wall mounted telephone

blacksmith's wheel

laundry agitator

fancy men's garter

used to measure fabric in a retail store

Falls at Kettle Falls

early coat hanger

Fort Colville US No. 2 Fort Colville drawing

hardware presentation

1897 Smith Premier Typewriter No. 2

Indian camp at Kettle Falls

spirit of Stevens County

Used for reloading shot gun shells

Anna Keller’s Piano

Side view Keller House at Christmas

Keller House - young visitors

Black Jack Cabin

french fry cutter

used to load shot into a gun

Trees removed at Agency Cabin

Beautiful Fall colors!

Entrance to Museum

Valley Washington - 1911

Old Marcus 1911

View south-west from the Graves Mt. Lookout

Hixson Castle with Grave Mt. Lookout

Musical piece - close up

Smokey relaxing

the plants are showing off.

Calendar Plate - St. Louis MO

Graves Mt. Lookout - Winter

Is it christmas already?

mannequin parts

cuff and collar holder

More Smokey Bling

turkeys on parade

Benches at the Agency Cabin

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

grapefruit slicer

Chrismas is coming!

Entering Heritage Park

Gray Newark Plate - Marcus WA

close up treadle engraving machine

Calendar Plate - Colville WA

U. S. Postal Service mailbag

Display of Dresses

Volunteers reinstalling windows at Indian Agency Cabin

When the curator starts a new display

benches - contributed and installed by the BoyScouts

One of the first fire extinguishers

View of the Agency Cabin and porch

Homestead Cabin

beautiful collection

four string banjo

Stannus Keller Hardware

full sized metal clip

Educational Board letters

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

Anna Keller's piano

Fall view of museum entrance

HIxson Castle winter

Museum hours (May 1 thru Sep 30)

Happy Birthday Smokey

University of Idaho checking dendrochronology at McCrea Cabin

flower vase for on an antique buggy or carriage

Keller House visitor

various pine boughs

Model Keller House

Saw Tooth Setter Swage Tool

pottery piece 2

Hixson Castle and Gnomes

fake tree is always festive

Hixson Castle and Gnomes 2

mannequins everywhere

Piano - back side

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

One of the newest members of our society

Flowers keep getting prettier each day

Used to force medicine down a sheep's throat

Volunteers working at Indian Agency Cabin

first buttercups of the season

Original square wood joints

Trappers Cabin view

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

toothpick holder

Beautiful day today

light reflector for doctors

beautiful dresses on display

Braille Typewriter

Harvey Hospital, 1905

Heritage Park grounds

View of Graves Mt. Lookout

Model Keller House - Front View

Laundry scrubbing board and musical instrument for a jug band

Keller Heritage Center grounds

Keller House Dining

Winter is approaching

four string banjo 2

Agency Cabin lights and apple tree

Ace lightbulb fixer

the tour has started

Cleveland Mine near Blue Creek - 1899 - 1900

Keller House Dining Room

View of the Colville Valley

Necklace and pins

Heritage Park memorial

LaSota Mill Bunkhouse

Homestead Cabin Interior

projecting microscope

Daguerreotype . Framed in gold

manual carpet sweeper

milking hobbles

Drone view of the museum grounds

late-1890s dust bellow

Quillasascut Grange Drill Team

Paul Kane drawing of Indians at Kettle Falls

Did you know we have a small store at the museum

We're here to help

Hixson Castles and Lookout

Fort Colville Monument

World War I draftees

Calendar Plate - Colville WA 2

cat calendar 1912

Piano - side view

Card catalog from the Coliville library

Agency Cabin Restored Porch

Street side of the cabin after windows put back in.

Some of our local wildlife

Plate - Gifford WA

fleams for bleeding cattle

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

View north from the Graves Mt. Lookout

Keller House with porch flowers

Keller House - winter

Pig Hair Scraper

Keller House Spring Bouquet

Dedication of HBC Fort Colville monument

Restoration at the Indian Agency Cabin

Christmas is coming!

Boardman and Gray Piano

Miner’s Cabin and dynamite shack

Trappers Cabin - new stairs

Chinese tea brick

Keller House and flowers

Dominion Stages passing in mountain

Women's Christian Temperance Union pin

Decker & Son Piano - Full size

mushroom - used to hold a sock in place

Spice Chest Radio

St Paul Mission

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

Ray Kresek looking at the Smokey Bear exhibits

Restored wall section at Agency Cabin.

We welcome all visitors

Multi-use barrel

View of museum and lookout tower

Handicap Parking

old, odd and often overlooked

1909 parade in Colville

Local residents enjoying Memorial Day Sunday at the Keller House

Even the flowers are excited

Repairing inner tubes - Early Ford Vehicles

Kettle Falls 1910

Agency Cabin’s new floor

Boyscout backpack and assorted honors and badges

Antique Brass Rope Splicer Splicing Tool

a treadle engraving machine

Keller House at Christmas

beak guards to keep a chicken from pecking

High above the lookout tower and museum grounds

Valley Washington - 1911

Lights at Agency Cabin

kerosene egg incubator

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

glove stretchers

Salvation Army uniform

Flowers in the garden

Chicken Quillotine

Blooming Flowers

Graves Mt. Lookout

Native American multi-use weight

Charles working on leather.

Ray Kresek visiting his Smokey Bear exhibit

doll collection

Model Keller House - Side View

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

View of flower, trapper’s cabin and dynamite shack

Flowers and Well

Dresses on display 2

1905 Stevens County Courthouse

West side of Agency Cabin lawn looking north.

Homstead Cabin Interior

Beautiful morning!

two dresses modeled after wedding dresses

Cream separator discs

View from near the base of the Lookout Tower.

Educational Board

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

small gauge or mining type

Flowers on a stick

Dresses on display

Historic photo of St Paul Mission

Indian Paintings on Deadman Rock - Tum Tum Washington

Another view of the Keller House

Keller House with Visitors

Keller House at Christmas

flowers on the back side of the Keller House

Law Enforcement Medal of Honor

backside metal clip

Underwood Typewriter Company Enameled Metal Expert Typist Award Pins

Beautiful Green Dress

A beautiful Fourth of July

barbed wire puller

1916 Colville Band on Main Street

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

Keller House view

View of Graves Mountain Lookout Tower

Soap or butter mold

Colville Leader Store wagon

Christmas tree and Santa

Anna Keller’s Piano

Work to be done on lawn

shoehorn made out of an animal's horn

Early piece - Bottom View

BSA. Order of the Arrow

Post Office Mural

Heritage Park Flowers

Brannock Device

Another gorgeous day

Dresses on display 4

Colville Water Line

Marian Garvey addition announcement

A view of the Lookout Tower.

Keller House Flowers

Trappers Cabin relocated

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

2012 War Monument Rededication

Smokey Bear - Full Size

hand-held cream separator

The rain is doing wonders for the flowers.

bank teller coin tray and dispenser

Decker & Son Piano

wooden and metal wheelchair

Wooden Holder - Side view

Allen Camp - Valley Washington

Keller House view

There's more to Smokey than just a costume

Dietrick display

Candle holders to clip onto a christmas tree

Lower museum grounds

Historic Colville Indian Agency raised

suppository maker

Early telephone

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

view of colville

View of Lookout Tower and Carriage House

Dresses on display 3

Painting in the Learning Center has begun.

Graves Mountain Lookout

Calendar Plate - Ferdinand ID

Demorest Prohibition Medal

Display Dresses

Fort Colville US No. 2 Fort Colville drawing

used for planting seeds into the ground

Historic photo of Colville Indian Agency

very vintage bowling ball

Keller House Spring

Hixson Castles and Graves Mt. Lookout

Another gorgeous day at the museum

View of north side of Agency Cabin grounds

HIxson Castle wintertime