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NEWPORT – Pend Oreille County Historical Society, home to the Pend Oreille County Museum announced the opening for the 2024 season on Friday, May 24 at 10 a.m.
The Museum, which is adjacent to the Newport Centennial Plaza gazebo, the “Big Wheel” and Chamber of Commerce-hosted Visitors Center, features Native American artifacts, military items, railroad displays, four log cabins, a fire lookout replica, a sawmill, an ice house, ox wagon shelter and root cellar, multiple items that display 20th century pioneer life of Pend Oreille County and the surrounding area, a church, farm machinery, a Burlington Northern caboose, schoolhouse, printing press, washing machine display, logging camp bunkhouse replica, 1947 firetruck and 1926 Model T Truck.
This year a few new exhibits will be present. Highlighting these, will be a newly constructed Boothill Cemetery built by River Valley Lifestyle, a telephone collection and an Expo 74 display.
The research center is open by appointment and is home to over 6,000 historical photos, out-of-print books, biographies, obituaries, complete catalogue from 1897-2008 of The Newport Miner, Newport Pilot, Horizon and Voice, the Metaline Falls News and Ione Newspapers, Pend Oreille County records, school yearbooks, family albums, writings, sketches, over 300 county maps including homesteads and more.
The gift shop sells numerous history and local author books, ornaments, railroad and gift items and the Historical Society’s publication, The Big Smoke which has been available 1969-2020. All back issues are available.
Saturday, May 4, the museum will join many other Newport entities in hosting a yard sale.
Hours are Friday, May 24, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, May 25, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, May 26, 1-4 p.m.; Memorial Day through Labor Day, Monday thru Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday 1-4 p.m.; open hours weekends after Labor Day thru part of October is to be determined.
