Skip to main content

Wallowa County Museum

Wallowa County Museum

The purpose of the museum is to preserve, protect and present Wallowa County History, both Indian and settlers; and to aid students, historians, and families in research. The museum has between 9,000 to 10,000 visitors during the season; most of them tourists. The museum is closed during the winter. However, the museum accommodates special requests during the off-season. People are asked to contact Ann Hayes if they are interested. Research and picture copying is done all year by request.

The board of directors at present time are: Caryl Coppin (chairman), Shandon Towers, Jane Tippett, Mildred McAnulty, Jack Harmon, Bill Fisher, Bill Kirby, Bob Casey, and Elane Dickenson.

We hope you enjoy our work.

Please support this 72-year tradition of trusted historical writing and the volunteers that sustain it with a donation to American Heritage.

Donate

Featured Articles

Rarely has the full story been told about how a famed botanist, a pioneering female journalist, and First Lady Helen Taft battled reluctant bureaucrats to bring Japanese cherry trees to Washington. 

Often thought to have been a weak president, Carter was strong-willed in doing what he thought was right, regardless of expediency or the political fallout.

Why have thousands of U.S. banks failed over the years? The answers are in our history and politics.

In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln embodied leading in a time of polarization, political disagreement, and differing understandings of reality.

Native American peoples and the lands they possessed loomed large for Washington, from his first trips westward as a surveyor to his years as President.