by Karen Lystad | Sep 20, 2025 | Stories
Imagine yourself in the early 1900’s In Grays Harbor County. Like now, you’d be living in a place with cities on the harbor and small towns scattered amidst the forests. You’d also be living in a state nine years ahead of the nation, where women have been given the...
by Karen Lystad | Sep 19, 2025 | Stories
The tall and short of it all…. Primo Boling and Major Mite both lived in McCleary Big news hit the internet in November 2024 when the world’s tallest woman, Rumeysa Gelgi (7’ 0.7”), and the world’s shortest woman, Jyoti Amge (2’ 0.7”), met for the first...
by Karen Lystad | Jun 4, 2024 | Stories
Who were the Pioneers of the McCleary area? We have an exciting new project at the Museum. We want to find out who was here in the McCleary Area before Washington became a state. We know some information about who was here in 1900 but the records for earlier are a...
by Karen Lystad | Mar 23, 2023 | Stories
REMEMBER THE OLD GRANGE… it was once a school The old school, which later became a Grange Hall, was torn down after I moved here and used to be where the Summit Place housing area is now. The above picture is of a model that someone made of the old...
by Karen Lystad | Feb 28, 2023 | Stories
MRS. ADA L. McCLEARY Wife of Henry McCleary, the founder of our town Contributed by Charles H. Fattig Ada L. Johnson was born 5 January 1861 in Winchester, Ohio. She married our Henry McCleary on 29 October 1885 in Guernsey County, Ohio. They came out west to...
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