
Local Spotlight: Author Stephaine Courtney
If you haven’t heard of Stephaine Courtney yet, you soon will. Her recent work with the NAACP, the YWCA, local school districts, her own organization
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If you haven’t heard of Stephaine Courtney yet, you soon will. Her recent work with the NAACP, the YWCA, local school districts, her own organization
The Liberty Park Neighborhood (as East Central was originally known) was developed in the 1890s as one of Spokane’s earliest streetcar neighborhoods. In 1897, wealthy mining magnate F. Lewis Clark donated a
One fun benefit of digitizing the photograph collection is bringing together photographs in new ways (like by the creator, instead of the subject!). Frank Palmer,
A database from the LDS Church providing birth, marriage, and death records, and U.S. Census records.
PATCHEN OBITUARY FILES
A free obituary index from Spokane papers between 1940-1979 compiled by Lee Patchen.
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