Category Archives: Research & Projects

Spring Tea Thank You !

Thank you to all who joined us to celebrate spring with our Tea Social.
It was a fun event this year after a great tradition that began in 2012 to celebrate the opening of the long running Waistlines & Hemlines Exhibit. That exhibit has been updated over the years and we hope to again the FNCC Third Floor with new displays and new histories in the coming year. Volunteers who like to work with antiques of all types, have carpentry skills, display ideas and skills, writing and keyboarding skills are welcome! Contact Us

New books available!

Learn more about the history of Stanwood Main Street and other mysteries in our new books
Main Street (270th Ave NW) is the last of two brick roads constructed in the late 1910s and 1920s in Stanwood. Many changes are in planning stages but hopes are high that they will be preserved. Many little shops are tucked away in both Stanwood’s historic west end and the depot district (East Stanwood)
Copies available at SAHS ~ Scroll down…
Contact us for copies, see SAHS Hours for picking them up.
[See also Coyote Hill Press which includes A Scrapbook of Stories – a History of the Utsalady Ladies Aid]

Stanwood Area Veteran’s Memorial is now complete!

Stanwood Area Veterans Memorial to All Who Served in War and Peace

Stanwood Area Veteran’s Memorial is now complete!
Three and 1/2 years ago Bill Keller and Jim Joyce began the project of creating a small park at the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center to be dedicated to the memory of local Veterans who lost their lives in the wars protecting American interests all over the world.
The memorial area has a new flagpole and granite monuments to these heroes and now it is a quiet place to stop and reflect on our history and role of our men and women who have served.
To fund this small park, individuals, students, community organizations and businesses have donated their time and funds towards its construction. The wall has been completed with the first 120 bricks we had engraved before construction. The Stanwood Area Historical Society will continue to sell blank bricks for the Veterans wall and they will engraved on site periodically with a minimum order and good weather conditions. The form for ordering is available here.

Stanwood Area Community Veterans Memorial

Stanwood Area Community Veterans Memorial

Stanwood/Camano Area Oral History Project

Stanwood/Camano Area Oral History Project
Project Kick-Off Event

Wednesday, January 31
6:00pm – 7:30pm
Where: Stanwood Camano Community Resource Center (across from the Stanwood Library)

This event is a partnership between the library, the Stanwood Camano Community Resource Center, and the Stanwood Area Historical Society.

We want to hear your stories! Join us to learn more about an upcoming oral history project partnership between the Stanwood Library, the Stanwood Camano Resource Center, and the Stanwood Area Historical Society. The project will be based off of the StoryCorps model and interviews will be uploaded to the StoryCorps archives. Further details on how you can participate will be shared at the event, and you can also sit in and observe as former WA state senator Mary Margaret Haugen gives the first interview and tells some of her own stories! January 31st, 6-7:30pm, across the street from the library at the Stanwood Camano Resource Center 9612 271st Street NW Stanwood, WA.

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floyd Norgaard Cultural Center south wall repairs

Completed repairs to side wall of the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center just in time for winter.

New siding being added to south wall of the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center

Thanks to our donors, we have reached our goal for the first phase of our Capital Fund project for repairing the south wall of the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center. In addition to many individual and family donors including event attendees, Thanks to the Snohomish County Community Heritage Grant reimbursement funds awarded by the Snohomish County Historical Commission and by Snohomish County Commissioners.

Photograph of siding repair on Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center

This photograph was taken 7/16/2014. Note the slanted fir (?) sheathing that was common. The false crown on the top was added in the 1940s(?) when the original gable roof was removed.

This was the September view of the progress of the project. Fisher Construction of Burlington is the contractor.