JCHS News
New Executive Director To Lead JCHS Into The Future
The Jefferson County Historical Society (JCHS) Board of Directors unanimously voted to appoint Tara McCauley to the role of Executive Director in December 2023. McCauley brings over two decades of experience in museum education, programming, and leadership to this...
Book Talk: Feeding Ghosts w/ Tessa Hulls + Lisbeth White
Join us for an unforgettable evening with Tessa Hulls, artist, writer, and adventurer extraordinaire! Get ready to delve into the captivating world of Tessa's latest work, "Feeding Ghosts," a deeply moving graphic memoir that explores the lives of three generations of...
2023 Wrapped
As we reflect on the past year, we're filled with gratitude for your incredible support. Thanks to you, it's been a year of remarkable achievements at JCHS: We welcomed 10,800 visitors to our sites who explored and enjoyed. Our membership community grew to...
What Is a Collection?
What is a collection? Why do you often see people who work in museums wearing gloves? How do giant objects on display in museums end up there? We hear some variation on these questions a lot! So, a few years ago, we enlisted Zula, a Chimacum High School student (now a...
The Whys of Collections Supplies
If you’ve ever accessed our archives for some research of your own, taken a tour with our staff, or browsed our online collection, you know that JCHS’s collection is vast—its contents are varied, much of it cannot be easily digitized for online access, and only a...
Exploring Local History This Summer
Our Interim Executive Director Tara McCauley recently joined Phil Andrus on KPTZ's Attention Please! to talk about JCHS’s many summer activities with a special focus on our downtown walking tours. This summer, we’ve been delighted to offer two tours every week—one...
Recreating Galatea for Historic Restoration
If you had the chance to visit us during our Research Center open house in June, you may have come across a familiar sight in our collection—a Venus figure much like the one currently seen in the Haller Fountain at the bottom of the Taylor Street stairs in downtown...
Unearthing the History of Jefferson County Cemetery
Earlier this month, our collections team joined Phil Andrus on KPTZ's Attention Please! to talk about our recent research on the Jefferson County Cemetery. While this property north of Laurel Grove was platted in 1899, the story of county-managed burial grounds in...
“The Image Can Serve as a Collective Memory”
A conversation with Jeremy Johnson about telling the stories of tradespeople and a changing marine industry If you’ve been following JCHS closely this year, you know that we launched a new website in March. One of our principal hopes with that project was to represent...
A Collections Dispatch from the “Digitistation”
Did you know you can find many of the photographic images, archival descriptions, and catalog records in our collection online? Our online collection is a vital resource that connects researchers all over the world to items that would otherwise only be accessible at...