By Austin Kerst
James Wesley Crow was born in Gooding, Idaho enlisted in the Army AirCorps during World War II. After his tour, James retired from the military and became an inventor of a seed separating device and…

By Arthur Brunnenkant
The Robert Reid Lab School started as a training school in 1908 where college students did student teaching with elementary students from the community. This was important because the normal schools…

By Arthur Brunnenkant
Like many of the commercial structures in downtown Cheney, the Masonic Temple has had many tenants and uses over the decades. Two influential architects of the 19th century, Kirtland Cutter and…

By Arianne Howarth
Just to the south of Harrington proper is the Hillcrest and St. Francis cemeteries, which are owned and maintained by the city. The Hillcrest grounds were designated and purchased as a cemetery in…

By Anne Coogan-Gehr
By the late 1870s, Spokane was becoming a town, a real town. And every town needs its women to stitch the fine threads of social and community structure. Early Spokane women followed their men to…

By Anne Coogan-Gehr
On the second terrace of Greenwood, Bernhardt Schade, a German immigrant, is buried at the family plot. Schade arrived in Spokane in the late nineteenth century with his Austrian Bohemian wife,…

By Anne Coogan-Gehr
On the lower level of Greenwood Cemetery, near the Spanish American cannon, James "Jimmie" Durkin lays buried under a block of granite. Durkin arrived in Spokane in 1897, 38 years old, with a pile of…

By Anne Coogan-Gehr
In March of 1896, Eugene Enloe was accused of foul play in the connection with the death of one Hugh Gillighan, who died at Medical Lake with no will, no relatives, and over $12,000 of assets. A…

By Anne Coogan-Gehr
Chief Spokane Garry was a member of the Spokan Indians, a tribe that had lived along the Spokane River for centuries. The Spokan people are believed to be of the original hunter-gatherers that settled…

By Anne Coogan-Gehr
Welcome to Greenwood Memorial Terrace. A walk through this cemetery will be a tour through Spokane's history. In the late nineteenth century, Spokane Falls of the Washington Territories had a…

By Anna Harbine
Like any immigrant, settling in a new land, cultural connectivity and education were important to a thriving immigrant community. For many, churches were the center of immigrant communities.…

By Anna Harbine
On a warm August day, Japanese-American pacifist and civil rights activist Gordon Hirabayashi made headlines, marrying his college sweetheart, Esther Schmoe, in a simple Quaker ceremony at Spokane’s…

By Anna Harbine
Being Japanese in Hillyard was not always easy. Home to a large community of railroad workers of every nationality, conflicts between the Japanese and other laborers were frequent, sometimes resulting…

By Anna Harbine
In the first half of the twentieth century small Japanese farms peppered the outskirts of the city. The produce from their farms in Bigelow Gulch, Nine Mile Falls, Spokane Valley, and Latah Creek…

By Anna Harbine
Sumi Yoshida and Joe Okamoto thought that December 7, 1941 was supposed a day that would live forever—in celebration. It was on that day the Japanese-American couple planned their wedding at the…

By Anna Harbine
When the territory of Washington became a state in 1889, the city of Spokane Falls was one of its largest and most successful cities. Attracting wealthy businessmen who had stakes in the nearby Idaho…

By Anna Harbine
As Washington Territory began to grow and attract more settlers looking to make a better life, conflicts between settlers and Indian tribes escalated. Unlike the fixed settlements of pioneers, who…

By Anna Harbine
Levi Hutton and his wife, May Arkwright Hutton, are rags to riches legends in the Inland Northwest. Both orphans, the couple traveled out west and met at a boarding house run by May Arkwright in what…

By Anna Harbine
When Levi and May Arkwright Hutton struck silver ore in 1901 at the Hercules Mine, the couple's lives dramatically changed. Both from humble beginnings, the pair met while working on railroad in…

By Anna Harbine
Life as an orphan out on the western frontier was full of hardships. Without parents, orphans bounced around from distant relative to distant relative. It was a lonely life for most, who were often…

By Anna Greiner-Shelton
Built in 1968, Streeter Hall was the first co-ed residence hall on campus. This was done to provide a new atmosphere of campus living. Though the hall was co-ed, men and women lived in different…