Stories

McCleary and Moonshine in the Roaring 20’s

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...

The Tall and Short of it all… Primo and Major Mite

Primo Boling and Major Mite both lived in McClearyBig 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 time in London to celebrate Guinness World...

McCleary Pioneers

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...

What do you miss?

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 building. We...

Ada McCleary

By all accounts, Ada McCleary was a great supporter of the community. Mrs. McCleary was active in her new community. She helped establish the first library in McCleary; started the Women’s aid Society which fed and clothed the needy in this region.

We had a Movie Theater?

From the Newsletter January 2019 From McCleary Movie Theater, to Auction House, to Ash Once upon a time, along about 1924 or 25, McCleary opened a movie theater. G.W. “Bill” Armour was owner/manager of a theater built by contractor H.N. Palamater in the booming town...