FD Museum Newsletter Spring 2015.pub

Published Jointly by Fort Dalles Museum & Fort Dalles Museum/Anderson Homestead Foundation

Spring 2015

Museum Opens for 110th Season 1

28 Years at the Helm 2

Interim Director on the Job 3

Museum Commission Message 4

Museum Foundation Message 5

Upcoming Events 6

Haller’s Gate — Looking Back 7

Fort Dalles Museum in Blue Book 7

What is This? 8

Commission Accomplishments 8

Volunteers Needed 9

Old Fort Dalles Historical Society 3

Who Do You Think You Are? 6

Inside this issue:

“Our 110th Season!”

Museum Hours: March through October

10am to 5pm

Please call in advance to schedule group tours

(541) 296-4547.

Interim Museum Director Cal McDer-mid ar-rived on the job with a vision in mind for the mu-seum. With volunteer help, he has reor-ganized the Sur-geon’s Quarters to tell the “story” of the Fort and of The Dalles. The Anderson House has been tweaked a little and the An-derson Barn has been spiffed up, too.

While the work is still an ongoing project, the museum is ready for vis-itors.

More changes will happen over the summer months as items are added to the displays or even moved to the Anderson House or the Anderson Barn. It’s all about telling our story whether it is the story of Fort Dalles, The Dalles, how a Swedish-style log cabin came to be moved to The Dal-les, or about the early-day electric car.

We think that the members of the Old Fort Dalles Historical Society would be pleased with the changes.

Fort Dalles Museum Opens for its 110th Season

Fort Dalles Museum opened on March 19th for its 110th season. The Surgeon’s Quarters was first opened as a museum in 1905 by the Old Fort Dalles Historical Society.

The museum will be open 7 days a week, 10am to 5pm through the end of October. Winter hours are ex-pected to be open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from November through February.

Fort Dalles Museum’s season started early with the first group tour of sen-ior citizens arriving from Portland on March 19th to visit the entire mu-seum complex. More group tours are already schedule for May.

Cruise ships began arriving on April 1st with the arrival of Queen of the West. It is expected to see about 100 dockings this season bringing approximately 15,000 visitors to town.

Tour ships will be docking at the Union Street marine terminal in downtown The Dalles. Due to arri-val of two ships in The Dalles on the same day, the Port of The Dalles Marina will also see dockings.

Queen of the West and American Empress will be frequent visitors as will the Legacy. Lindblad National Geographic Sea Bird and Sea Lion arrive in the Fall. The Tall Ships return in July.

Visitors will find a new look and direction at the museum as well as the Anderson House and the Ander-son Barn.

Directional signs at the City Dock point the way for passengers. The di-rectional signs were in-stalled earlier this year.

For t Dal les Dispatch Spr ing 2015

Paula Kuttner Headed Up Museum for 28 Years

Paula served the Museum, the City of The Dalles and the people of Wasco County for nearly 28 years, first as Caretaker and then as Museum Director.

“Since accepting the position of Museum Caretaker in 1987 I have seen the Museum change from a rather grubby facili-ty, a single building with photo-graphs thumbtacked to the walls, to a Museum that routinely uses proper archival materials and (so far as is possible in such limited space ) modern preservation meth-ods. I scrounged archival mount-ing materials and cut dozens of photo mats by hand; I constructed frames and oversaw the construc-tion of others by then-

groundskeeper, handyman and friend, Orval McManman. I researched and made la-bels to identify photographs heretofore unidentified as to names, dates and locations.

“I urged the Board to clean and furnish the Anderson Homestead buildings, which had been relocated to neighboring properties in the 1970s but still sat empty, so they could be opened to the public in 1995. This necessitated the creation of an actual Museum staff. I interviewed, selected and trained docents to staff the Anderson buildings as well as helping complete the Anderson House furnishing and deco-rating with suitable items from the Mu-seum’s collections.

“I encouraged the addition of modern restroom facilities and handicapped accessible restrooms, which were com-pleted in 1997. Hilary Hines, one of the early Anderson crew members, and I worked on inventory in the kitchen when the construction went on.

“I requested that the Board allow me to bring in a computer to begin a switch to digital record keeping at about that time. I brought my husband (the first CPA in The Dalles to innovate by us-ing computers for tax data and returns) to explain to the Board the potential advantages of computerized inventory and record keeping.

“Hilary and I instituted special Spring events featuring baby animals, fol-lowed by the very popular “Sheep

Show” series with herding demonstrations on the grounds, shearing in the barn and wool spinning demon-strations in the Anderson House. We are still asked about those innovative and very popular programs. An-other special feature for several years was sidesaddle demos by very knowledgeable women who talked about the history of the saddles and riding costumes, and ex-pertly demonstrated side-saddle mounting and riding. We also had several well-received Textile/Hand-craft/ Quilt Shows and a couple of programs inviting local res-idents to bring in their favorite antiques to be evaluated by invited experts; these were popular and great fun. “Several excellent educational programs were started and run during my tenure, including Mary Davis’s out-reach programs for early grade school students and vari-ous Living History presentations for older students, Scouts and the general public.

“I am proud of everything we accomplished, and I wish this wonderful facility many more years to preserve his-tory, and the buildings and collections which are how we tell that history to our visitors.

“Thank you for the opportunity of serving the Museum and the people of Wasco County during these past (nearly) 28 years.”

Sincerely, Paula Kuttner

Louis Scholl’s map trunk and some of his tools on display at the museum.

Paula Kuttner


New Interim Museum Director Has Roots in Wasco County

With the resignation of Muse-um Director, Paula Kuttner, the Wasco County/City of The Dal-les Museum Commission hired Cal McDermid as the Interim Director for Fort Dalles Muse-um. McDermid’s position is a temporary position giving the Museum Commission time to develop a strategy to fund a full-time museum director in the next year.

Cal was born in The Dalles and grew up on a wheat and cattle ranch in Sherman County. His love for history started when he attended Sherman County Historical Society annual meetings.

Cal is a gradate of Sherman high School and Lewis and Clark College where he graduated with a degree in edu-cation. He started his teaching career in Madras, Ore-gon and then went on to various jobs in restaurant and

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property management fields in different parts of the coun-try.

When he returned to the Columbia Gorge in 2001 he be-came involved with the Maryhill Museum and the Sher-man County Historical Society and most recently with WAAAM (Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum) as a guide for the American Empress Cruise Line in Hood River.

Cal recently worked for four years as the Event and Mem-bership Coordinator at The Dalles Area Chamber. During this time he became very aware of the growing tourism industry that was moving into the gorge and The Dalles.

Cal is excited to be bringing the Fort Dalles Museum and Anderson Homestead into the 21st Century and making it the “Jewel of Historic The Dalles” that it deserves to be. He has slowly been redesigning exhibits in the museum and freshening up the Anderson House and Barn. Visitors will find a new look to the museum and the homestead.

From report made by Mrs. Benton Mays, President.

Old Fort Dalles was established in 1850 by Mayor Tucker of the famous rifle regiment which crossed the plains in 1849. The first buildings were mostly of logs, but these were burned down, and new buildings constructed of lum-ber in 1856-1858. After the ravages of time, the desecra-tion of the careless, and the usual misfortune which at-tended unoccupied premises. This building (Surgeon’s Quarters) is the only one left of the officers quarters, this being the Surgeon’s quarters.

The cost of the buildings of this Fort ran up into many hundreds of thousands of dollars, and as mill machinery etc., had to be brought around Camp Horn, and then trans-ported up the Columbia in very primitive and small steamers, much time and money were consumed.

This work was under the supervision of Captain Thomas Jordan, with Mr. Louis Scholl as architect, and Colonel George Wright in command. This Garrison was occupied until the breaking out of the rebellion in 1861, when the soldiers were ordered east. Another regiment was brought here from Fort Vancouver and the spring of 1867 they were taken away. Then for 20 years Louis Fritz Sr. of our city looked after the property, and was paid by the gov-ernment.

Then it was laid out as Fort Dalles Military addition to

Dalles city. The streets were dedicated to the city; the lots appraised and sold,

The buildings of the fort fell into decay and destruction by squatters who carried off the doors, windows, stairs and lumber, burning what remained. No friendly hand ever reached out to save any of the old fort buildings except the surgeon’s quarters acquired by Fort Dalles historical Soci-ety, its plaster patched, roof repaired, windows replaced and caretaker hired. Mrs. Wm. Shackelford, Mrs. J.M. Marden, Mrs. Wentworth Lord and Mrs. C.J. Crandall were the 4-Horsewomen of the Historical Apocalypse who conceived the idea of preserving that last building.

The first efforts to secure the building was made by the Tains Class (sic) of Jay P. Lucas of the U.S. Land Office and he was appointed to contact the Interior Department regarding securing the building for the Historical Society. Much correspondence ensued. The building was appraised at $1,100. The Sorosis club in May 1903 looked into the matter and made a trip to Portland to see the officers of the Oregon State historical Society. Judge Bellinger was president, George Himes was secretary and they were much interested.

We contacted Congressman Williamson of The Dalles and

Cal McDermid

Trish Neal, President Wasco County/City of The Dalles Museum Commission

The Museum Commission has been busy this past year. We have adopted new by-laws and new policies. The policies make sure that the museum is operating in a professional manner and that we are in compliance with

Wasco County’s methods. All of this has meant changes in how we all do things from the commission level to the museum level.

One major change was the resignation of Paula Kuttner after almost 28 years of devotion to the Fort Dalles Muse-um. Paula saw a lot of changes and brought the museum into the computer age. As a former director of a museum in Alaska, I can attest to the importance of the computer in a museum. This was huge for us! It makes tracking your collection, memberships, donations, etc. so much easier.

The Museum Commission hired Cal McDermid in Febru-ary to serve as the Interim Museum Director. This will allow us to seek out ways to generate the revenue needed so that we can look at hiring a full-time director. It also provides leadership at the museum and leaves the Muse-um Commission to focus on the nuts and bolts.

Cal comes with a strong background in history and muse-ums. He also came with a vision and has implemented a lot of changes within the museum to tell our story. Some changes have been done at the Anderson House and at the Anderson barn. It is amazing to see what the changes to the museum has done to make it a totally new museum. But the work isn’t done.

Meanwhile, the Museum Commission will be busy working on more policies

Please activate my annual membership:

� Basic Membership (Individual) $15.00

� Basic Membership (Family) $35.00

� Rifle Regiment $100.00

� Medical Officer $250.00

� Commanding Officer $500.00

� Inspector General $______

Total Enclosed: $________

Please make check payable to: Fort Dalles Museum

and mail to 500 W. 15th Street, The Dalles, OR 97058

Name:_________________________________________

Address: _______________________________________

City: _________________________ State: ___ Zip: ____

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� I would like to volunteer. My area of interest is: _____

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and procedures as we move forward. In addition, we’ll be meeting with the Fort Dalles Museum/Anderson Home-stead Foundation to work on strategic planning for the future. The Foundation is the fund-raising arm of the mu-seum so it is important to work together.

Finally, we need volunteers. We adopted a new Volun-teer program for the museum. We’ll be recruiting for a Volunteer Coordinator soon. If you like organizing, you may want to consider this position. We have other Volun-teer positions too, from Docents to Greeters and even someone who is interested in caring for our antique vehi-cles. Have a green thumb? We could use your help! It will take Volunteers to maintain 7 days a week March through October. Be assured that no experience or knowledge of history is required. We provide training and a work part-ner so that you won’t be working alone.

Message from Wasco County/City of The Dalles Museum Commission

Donations for Fort Dalles Museum and Anderson HomesteadThe Fort Dalles Museum/Anderson Homestead Foundation was set up to be the fundreasons for the Foundation’s existence.

The museum is in a unique situation where it is operated jointly by Wnically “non-profit” it does not qualify for certain grants. In addition,by law. One commission cannot commit a future commission on howCommission. While that is the case for the Museum Commission, mesure that donations are used for the museum. However, the Museum CThe Foundation does not have those limits on donations istreceives ofact, donors can stipulate how they want their donations to be used: 1new building), 2] Endowment Fund (set aside to earn interest), or, 3] needed). Funds could be dedicated to the Anderson Homestead if donors requested.There are no “strings” on how long the funds remain unspent, no combe transferred to another department.

So what is the best option? Your membership in the Fort Dalles Museumsupport the museum but by law, those funds cannot be committed to the fFoundation also support the museum complex. There are no restrictions ocome a member of the Fort Dalles Museum as your membership is imporon how the funds should be used on behalf of the museum. If you have q


volunteers and the Fort Dalles Museum-Anderson

Homestead Foundation are "pulling together" on many fronts and taking on the challenges and opportunities to make this museum shine for current and future genera-tions.

We appreciate the commitment of Wasco County and the City of The Dalles partnering with the museum and the foundation to provide financial stability to maintain this county/city treasure. We also appreciate the community support that we have and we continue to foster renewed commitment.

Fort Dalles Museum-Anderson Homestead Foundation Message

Randy Kaatz, President FDMAHF

Pulling Together

It is inspiring to see two hors-es working together to pull a very heavy load (to see this for yourself, go to www.youtube.com and search for: Draft Horse Pull-

ing Contest 2014.

It is also inspiring to see two very important entities pull-ing together to make the Fort Dalles Museum the "Crown Jewel" of The Dalles. The Fort Dalles Museum-

Anderson Homestead Commission with county staff/

Donations for Fort Dalles Museum and Anderson Homestead

The Fort Dalles Museum/Anderson Homestead Foundation was set up to be the fund-raising arm of Fort Dalles Museum. There are two

The museum is in a unique situation where it is operated jointly by Wasco County and City of The Dalles. While the museum is tech-it does not qualify for certain grants. In addition, as a department of Wasco County, funds cannot be “guaranteed”

by law. One commission cannot commit a future commission on how funds will be dispersed. It is the same situation for the Museum Commission. While that is the case for the Museum Commission, members of the commission do everything in their power to make sure that donations are used for the museum. However, the Museum Commission must comply with law.The Foundation does not have those limits on donations istreceives on behalf of the Fort Dalles Museum or Anderson Homestead. In fact, donors can stipulate how they want their donations to be used: 1] Transportation Building for the vehicles (use on vehicles and new building), 2] Endowment Fund (set aside to earn interest), or, 3] General use (for use at the museum or Anderson Homestead as

Funds could be dedicated to the Anderson Homestead if donors requested. The funds remain in the Foundation until needed. on how long the funds remain unspent, no commission or other body can dictate how those funds can be used or

So what is the best option? Your membership in the Fort Dalles Museum will continue to go towards supporting the museum. Donations support the museum but by law, those funds cannot be committed to the future. Donations to the Fort Dalles Museum/Anderson Homestead Foundation also support the museum complex. There are no restrictions on committing the funds to the future. We encourage you to be-come a member of the Fort Dalles Museum as your membership is important. Donations should be sent to the FDMAHF with designation on how the funds should be used on behalf of the museum. If you have questions, you should talk to your Tax Advisor.

Yes, I would like to help preserve Fort Dalles Museum and the Anderson Homestead for future generations.

My gift amount: _____________________ � Check # _________

Name: ____________________________________________________________

Address: __________________________________________________________

City/State/Zip: ______________________________________________________

Phone: ____________________________________________________________

Email: _____________________________________________________________

� Please contact me about setting up an endowment fund or call 800-619-1550. Fort Dalles Museum/Anderson Homestead Foundation is a 501(c)3 charitable organization. Your gift is tax-exempt.

Mail to: Fort Dalles Museum/Anderson Homestead Foundation, P.O. Box 591, The Dalles, Oregon 97058. Tax ID#: 30-0589167

� Vehicle Building $_______

� Endowment Fund $_______

� General Fund $_______

You can help Fort Dalles Foundation earn Donations just by shopping with Your Fred Meyer Rewards card! Fort Dalles-Anderson Home-stead supports the Fort Dalles Muse-um!

Fred Meyer is donating $2.5 million per year to non-profits in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, based on where their customers tell them to give. Here’s how the program works: • Sign up for the Community Rewards program by linking your Fred Meyer Rewards Card to Fort Dalles Museum/ An-derson Homestead Foundation at www.fredmeyer.com/communityrewards. You can search for us by our name or by our non-profit number 93516. • Then, every time you shop and use your Rewards Card, you are helping Fort Dalles Museum/Anderson Homestead Foun-dation earn a donation! • You still earn your Rewards Points, Fuel Points, and Re-bates, just as you do today. • If you do not have a Rewards Card, they are available at the Customer Service desk of any Fred Meyer store. • For more information, please visit www.fredmeyer.com/ communityrewards


Upcoming Events

The grounds of Fort Dalles Museum can be the site of your next family reunion or your upcoming wed-ding. Contact the museum at 541-296-4547 for details on renting the grounds for private events.

Free Concert Series

4th Sunday at the Fort

The popular concert series returns to the Fort this summer! The concerts are free to the public. It is recommended that you bring a chair or a blanket to sit on the ground. The concerts last two hours. The line up for this summer is: • June 28—Kelly Martin, Acoustic Guitar/Singer. • July 26—Strawberry Mountain Band. • August 23—Tom Graff Acoustic Guitar/Country

Singer Enjoy the antique vehicles of Fort Dalles Museum while you tap your toes on the beautiful lawn of one of Oregon's oldest museum. Bring a picnic, some lawn chairs or a blanket and come enjoy the music in the historic atmos-phere of Fort Dalles Museum located at 500 West 15th and Garrison Streets.

Fort Dalles Days July 18, 2015

Fort Dalles Museum and Anderson Homestead will be celebrating Fort Dalles Days and 50 Years of Fort Dal-les Radio at the Fort. There will be special exhibits and other activities at the Fort. The typical Fort Dalles Days activities will not be at the Fort this year in lieu of the activities taking place downtown.

Fort Dalles museum and the Columbia Gorge was featured on TLC’s program “Who Do You Think You Are?” which aired Sunday, April 5th. The show traces the genealogy of a celebrity. The program focused on actor/director Tony Goldwyn, star of the current TV series, “Scandal.”

Goldwyn’s ancestry brings him to the Columbia Gorge to trace the path of Nathaniel Coe, who founded the commu-nity of Hood River.

A segment of the show was filmed at Fort Dalles Museum last winter during five hours of frigid weather. While mu-seum staff were not filmed on camera, they did have a chance to observe the filming.

Links to the trailers and other information on the filming can be found on the Fort’s Facebook page.

“Who Do You Think You Are?” Series

Filmed Segment at Fort Dalles Museum

William & Mary history professor Andy Fisher helps actor Tony Goldwyn discover his ancestry. (Video courtesy The Learning Channel (TLC).)

Left to to right: Eric Gleason, Tony Goldwyn, Jacqui Cheung, Andy Fisher, Paula Kuttner, and Corinne Seims. Photo courtesy of Corinne Seims.


Fort Dalles Museum’s “Educational Cabinets” are fea-tured in the current issue of the Oregon Blue Book.

Two beautiful old oak cabinets hanging on the walls of the Fort Dalles Museum are all that remain of the large Education exhibit from the 1905 Lewis and Clark Cen-tennial Exposition held in Portland, Oregon.

The exhibit featured the schoolwork of children from Wasco County as well as other schools across the state.

That was 110 years ago. The same year that the Sur-geon’s Quarters opened its doors to the public as a muse-um.

Examples of schoolwork created by the students were exhibited in the Education Department and displayed in beautiful oak cabinets with glass fronts. They featured photographs of school buildings by Gifford of The Dal-les, a well-known photographer in Oregon.

The online version of the Blue Book offers images from the cabinets at the museum (http://bluebook.state.or.us/misc/about/new.htm) and the online exhibit, which in-cludes many of the museum’s images starts at http://bluebook.state.or.us/facts/scenic/ed/edhome.htm The link to the start of the actual exhibit is located at the bot-tom of the webpage.

The two cabinets can be viewed at the museum during business hours, 10am to 5pm, 7 days a week.

In addition, the museum has a set of books that contain more schoolwork from the students. While the books are not readily available to the public, arrangements can be made to look at the books by appointment.

Wasco County Education Exhibit Featured in 2015-16 Oregon Blue Book

The new main gate at Old Fort Dalles historical building will be publicly

dedicated to the memory of Major Granville

O. Haller on Sunday, October 14, at 2:30 p.m., it was announced today by Mrs. Benton Mays, president of the old Fort Dalles historical society. This gate, on the Garrison street side of the Historical building grounds, occupies identically the same loca-tion as the old gate used by Major Haller during the years he served as commandant of Fort Dalles, it is de-clared.

A bronze tablet has been prepared at the direction of the society, which com-memorates Major Haller’s services to this community and to the northwest dur-ing the Indian war days of the fifties. This will be placed on one of the con-crete posts of Haller gate and will be un-veiled during the dedication ceremo-nies.

Judge Fred W. Wil-son will be the prin-cipal speaker on the program, and will give an outline of Major Haller’s mili-tary career, with especial reference to Fort Dalles days.

The complete pro-gram for the dedica-tion is to include musical numbers, community singing, the raising of the

Old Fort Dalles flag and the unveiling of the memorial tablet, and will be announced later in full.

~October 5, 1928 The Dalles Chronicle

Historical Society To Hold Dedication

NEW MAIN GATE SUBJECT OF CEREMONY SUNDAY; JUDGE TO SPEAK

Mrs. Charlotte Haller McKee and Mrs. Leonard Bushnell of Seattle. Taken in 1929 while visiting Fort Dalles. Mrs. McKee was born in the log barracks building in 1854 while her father, Major Granville O. Haller, was Commanding Of-ficer of Fort Dalles.

A new exhibit explores Oregon's Early Rural Schools. This drawing by a Wasco County third grade student in 1905 shows a little girl gardening. (Fort Dalles Museum)

Major Granville O.

Haller


What is This?

This has been on display at the Fort Dalles Museum for some time with the note: "What is this?" No one seems to know what it is. Do you? The "arms" move up and down. What do you think it was used for? The photo was posted on Facebook. There were a lot of guesses but nothing fit. In fact, the post reached over 13,000 people! And still no answer. That is until Jim Anderson was search-ing the Internet and found the link to our Facebook page. We were delighted to see his email: Hello museum staff: I was searching the internet and ran across your mystery item on Facebook. I do not have a Facebook account but thought I would send you an email. I have a pair of the item in question and have no idea what they are. Mine still have the springs to keep them in the closed position. You can see the springs next to the ears at the top. They were in my dad’s house when he passed away last fall. He was a farmer so I was thinking they might be keeper pins for the lift arms on a three point lift for a tractor? You are welcome to use my pictures or information in anyway you choose to solve this mystery. I would like to know also what they are. Good Luck. Jim Anderson

So, has Jim solved our mystery? Our “thingamabob” is the single one seen above. Jims duo can be seen on the right. Yep, they are a match! We think Jim has the answer but we’d like to hear from someone who worked in farm-ing or ranching who could confirm this for us. If you have information plese contact the museum by email at [email protected] or at 541-296-4547.

Museum Commission Meetings

Wasco County/City of the Dalles Museum Commission meetings are held the first Tuesday of every month. 7:00 p.m. Members and the public are always welcome to attend. Meetings are held at the Northern Wasco County PUD unless otherwise stated in the public announcement.

MUSEUM COMMISSION ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR 2014

Policies and Procedures Job Descriptions:

1. Docent 2. Museum Director (1995 version). 3. Museum Manager (1995 version). 4. Groundskeeper (1995 version). 5. Events Coordinator (New – currently being re-

viewed by county). Policies:

1. Grounds Rental Agreement (currently being re-

viewed for revisions). 2. Wasco County/City of The Dalles Bylaws (adopted by Commission, county, and city). 3. Accounts Payable Policy (how bills are to be paid, who is responsible, etc.). 4. Cash Handling Policy (Includes Daily Cash Repor-ing Form) . 5. Computer Use & Social Media Policy. 6. Museum Code of Ethics (to be signed by commis-sion, Foundation, Staff and Volunteers.) . 7. Museum Procedures Handbook (how to open and close and handle various situations, housekeeping, etc.). 8. Director’s Report (includes Excel report form for monthly report and Event Report) Reports: • Fort Dalles Museum Report for FY July 1, 2013 to

June 30, 2014 (presented to County Commissioners and City Council).

Fort Dalles Museum Complex

Building & Grounds Maintenance

• Replace roof on Anderson Barn with matching funds

from OPRD grant. • Replace stairs to upper level of Anderson Barn

• Mold remediation at Museum. • Air conditioning for museum office but need better

system. • Energy Audit of Fort Dalles Museum complex by

Northern Wasco PUD. • Inspection by Hire Electric of electrical upgrades for

entire property. • Properly installed fire extinguishers throughout the

museum complex. • Removed decaying stump on grounds.

Miscellaneous

• Worked with “Who Do You Think You Are?” series. • All staff Q-Care and Hospitality U certified. • All Staff Bike Friendly Certified. • Museum Bike Friendly Certified and sign mounted

on fence. • Daughters of American Revolution installed plaque

near front entrance.


Volunteers

If the idea of Volunteering at one of Oregon’s oldest history museums right here in The Dalles is something that you have thought about,

here’s your chance to help us! We are looking for Volunteers who have a few hours a week or a month or even occasionally dur-

ing the year who would be willing to help out at the museum. All you need is the time. We will provide the training in how the museum operates, information on our history, etc. New Volunteers will be matched with our more experienced Volunteers so that you won’t be on your own in the begin-ning so you’ll feel comfortable. If you are interested in Volun-

teering, please contact the museum by phone or stop by dur-ing museum hours. We’d love to speak with you!

• Do you have some free time to give back to your community? We need you! • Do you enjoy meeting new people? You can do that on a daily basis! • Are you interested in learning more about local history? We can teach you! • Are you an antique vehicle fan who could give tours? We have the vehicles! • Love gardening and could help with the grounds? We have lots of ground to cover! • Have an agriculture background? We have a Pioneer home, granary, and a barn! • Have office and computer skills! We have projects available behind the scenes! • Can you help with Special Events or Children’s Activities? We need special people! • Local history buff who likes to share your knowledge? We have the visitors!

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he introduced legislation to donate the building to the Oregon state historical Society in 1904; and they ap-pointed Mrs. Shackleford, Mrs. C.J. Crandall, Mrs. W. Lord, Mrs. John Marden, Mrs. S.L. Brooks and Dr. Belle Furgeson to look after the property.

With a great deal of effort, and with the influence of the officers of the State Historical Society, at that time Judge Bellinger was their President and Geo. T. Himes their sec-retary, they secured it through a special act of Congress for the use of the Society as long as they kept it up and main-tained it properly, and the preservation of historic relics and curios of Pioneer days. No other clubs, societies, or gatherings of any kind are permitted by the State Associa-tion, only when given by our society for a benefit with to raise money, or to exhibit what we have.

Out of that committee grew the Fort Dalles Historical So-ciety in 1904. Working under the Oregon Historical Socie-ty they elected Mrs. Wm. Shackelford, President; Mrs. Wentworth Lord, Vice-President; Mrs. John Marden 2nd Vice-President; Mrs. C.J. Crandall, Secretary; and Dr. Belle Furgeson, Treasurer.

By the aid of the friends at that time 1905, we raised $1,000.00 and secured Mr. and Mrs. Paddock as custodi-ans. We tore off the shingles, reroofed and oiled the out-side; fixed up the inside the best we could, so someone could live in it, and begun our collections and people re-sponded with many things, so at last the hopes of that His-torical Committee were well repaid, and that was the be-ginning of what we have today.

Note: Can you identify the other women in the photo? The museum would like to know their names.

Back Row: Mrs. Goodall, Mrs. H. Smith, Mrs. C. Carson, Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Ellen Burgess, Mrs. Tripp, Mrs. Loring, Mrs. H. Roe. Front Row: Mrs. Mary Ward, Mrs. Jewel, Mrs. Mays, Mrs. Price, Gladys Roe, Mrs. R.D. Kelley, Mrs. Searcy, Mrs. Krail. Original photo courtesy Mr. Merle F. Jewell.

Board of the Wasco County Museum Commission

Fort Dalles Museum & Anderson Homestead

Trish Neal, President Susan Buce, Vice-President Heather Hopkins, Secretary

Daliea Thompson, Treasurer Marvin Polehn

Eric Gleason

Donna Lawrence

Cal McDermid, Interim Museum Director Hilary Hines Leona McManman

Corinne Seims

Davien Lundin

Bob McNary, Groundskeeper

Fort Dalles Museum/Anderson Homestead Foundation

Randy Kaatz, President/Secretary

Mary Davis, Vice-President Dennis Davis, Treasurer Trish Neal, Secretary

Julie Reynolds

Jeff Krier Cal McDermid

Eric Gleason, Ex-Officio

Fort Dalles Museum/Anderson Homestead Foundation is a tax-exempt non-profit 501(c)3 organization. Tax ID number: 30-0589167 For more information or to contribute to the foundation contact the foundation at: P. O. Box 591—The Dalles, Oregon 97058

E-mail: [email protected]

http://fortdallesfoundation.org (541) 296-8213

Fort Dalles Museum Staff

Summer Hours: March through October 7 days a week, 10am to 5pm Please call in advance to schedule group tours 541-296-4547

500 West 15th Street — The Dalles, Oregon 97058

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