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Wallowa County Museum

Local historical collections inside a former bank on Main Street.

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Joseph and the surrounding valley, with Wallowa Lake and the mountains beyond. Community context for this record.
Around Joseph

Joseph and the surrounding valley, with Wallowa Lake and the mountains beyond. Community context for this record.

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The museum was dedicated in October 1976 and opened in May 1977, according to its county-hosted history. Its collections include material assembled by John Harley Horner and donations from residents.

The institution and its building have different histories. Follow the former bank record to see an earlier use of the same address.

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Through time

1976

Museum dedicated.

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1977

Museum opened to the public.

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Occupies the former bank building · 1977 onwardFirst Bank of Joseph building
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From the photograph collection

Around Joseph, in photographs.

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A street scene in Joseph, photographed in April 2013.View photograph
Joseph

Joseph, Oregon.jpg

Visitor72013-04-09
An aerial view of Joseph and the fields around its streets.View photograph
Joseph

Town and working fields

Sam Beebe2007-07-08
Wallowa Lake and the valley, seen from Mount Howard.View photograph
Wallowa Lake

The valley from Mount Howard

Finetooth2010-09-17
The larger story

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Brick storefronts along a street in Enterprise.
Chapter 03 Towns & settlement

Every main street has many lives.

An influenza-delayed theater, a bank with a hospital upstairs, and a pharmacy sharing a roof with a lodge: follow the rooms where the valley’s towns repeatedly remade their lives.

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