Speaking of History Project, Rochester WA

08/14/2025

📚✨ Step back in time this Saturday! ✨📚
Come explore the Historic Gate City Schoolhouse in Rochester — built in 1910 and full of local history. 🏫 Take a guided tour, see what school was like over 100 years ago, and enjoy a picnic in the park afterward!

🗓 Saturday, August 16th
⏰ 10:00am – 2:00pm
📍 16925 Moon Rd SW, Rochester, WA

Free, family-friendly, and a rare peek into our community’s past — you don’t want to miss it!

08/07/2025

Created by friends & family when Abraham Lincoln was President, carried across the Oregon Trail in 1863, an 1860's era family quilt ended its journey here in Rochester, rescued 130 years after its creation by Donna Weaver Smith & is on display next week at the Southwest Washington Fair August 12-17, 2025. See it in the Community Building just before the carnival rides.

11/27/2024

Some of the 1950's Rochester Improvement Club records were delivered today.. not many left who remember them installing hanging street lights, nor the JE McCleary field at the high school that burned down..

10/11/2024

Love this 1940’s directional signage- would have been at the corner of Highway 12 & Albany

10/11/2024

Received Carper family albums today for the archives! Grand Mound school Grades 1-3 in 1940. Thank you Laura Bronson (descendant of JK Carper)

10/10/2024

10/10/2024

Finding 1930's pics of Gene Weaver in one of his earliest jobs....

10/04/2024

Ok, this just makes my heart leap! 1950’s negatives found in my Grama Pat Weavers shoebox … being scanned for printing by her 37 year old great granddaughter (whom she never had the pleasure of meeting)

09/14/2024

2pm Sunday Sept 15 - at Gate Schoolhouse 16925 Moon Rd - you’re welcome to join a gathering to share history stories with area descendants- potluck afterwards