This presentation will be the first Museum After Hours offered on-site at the museum since 2020!

This presentation by Mike Denny, From a College to a Town: The 75-year History of College Place, looks at the town’s history as it starts and builds around Walla Walla College in 1891. Mike will review the role of the Tribes, the U.S. army, missionaries, and emigrants from Italy, China, and Ireland. He will also discuss early settlers headed to the Oregon Country from east of the Mississippi River like Dr. Blalock. Notable events that will be touched upon include the arrival of the first sweet onions, the first banks, expansion, devastating fires, disease, the eventual fight to incorporate the hamlet, and much more!