Featured Stories
Deer Lake Irrigated Orchard Company: A testament to the resolve of early Black Spokane
Around the turn of the last century numerous African Americans migrated from the deep South to Spokane in hopes of building a freer and more prosperous life. In which some of them achieved this with…
Taft: The Wickedest City in America
By the early 1900s, the rough and tumble frontier towns of America were dying off, slowly becoming gentrified and developed into respectable settlements. Taft, Montana was one town that wasn't going…
Moore Mansion
In 1889, Frank Rockwood Moore and his wife Sarah Franicis Sherlock Moore began work on their residence in Spokane. Moore had made quite a name for himself in the local community. He was the first…
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Fort George Wright
7 Locations ~ Curated by Lee NilssonA tour of historic Fort George Wright in Spokane, Washington.
Japanese Americans of Spokane
9 Locations ~ Curated by Anna HarbineJapanese-Americans have a long history in Spokane. From their arrival with the railroad to their struggles in WWII, the city contains many remnants reminding us of our strong ties with the Japanese-American community.
Here you will find a tour highlighting historic sites related to the history of Spokane's Japanese-American community.
Ghost Signs of Spokane
17 Locations ~ Curated by Frank Oesterheld, Anna Harbine, Caitlin Shain, and Erin PulleyThe Ghost Signs tour is a student-led project that cataloged the signs painted on the sides of the downtown buildings. In addition to this digital tour, students created a walking tour complete with a pamphlet.
Fort Spokane
20 Locations ~ Curated by The Lake Roosevelt PartnershipFort Spokane feature layers of fascinating and often heart-breaking history. The site, now administered by the National Park Service and Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area, began life as the last Army Fort built on the American frontier. It later became an Boarding School for the forced assimilation of Native American children. After that is served as a tuberculosis sanatorium for native men and women with that often deadly disease.
This virtual tour shares some of the stories embedded…
Browne's Addition
14 Locations ~ Curated by Zachary WnekBrowne's Addition was Spokane's first neighborhood. For decades this neighborhood was an enclave for the city's elite residents. This tour begins and ends at the MAC. This tour is slightly less than 1.5 miles and highlights historic buildings here in the Browne's Addition neighborhood.
In the summer of 1878 the area called Spokane Falls was sparsely populated having only 54 residents. At this time James N. Glover still owned most of the city when John J. Browne came to Spokane from…
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