2012 Board of Directors

October 2012 Gift from Jack Kelley Find us on facebook Fall City Neighbors Newsletter Memory Book Historical Society Office Membership Mission Statement 2012 Board

This October will bring our Second Annual Fundraising Drive. The mailing will go out in early October. If you would like to be added to our mailing (or email) list, please contact us. (see bottom of page for information) Our focus for the coming year will be creating a larger web site, which will allow us to make items in our collection available online. A necessary part of that project is updating the computer in our office. We'd love your help in covering the costs of this important next step. Please download donation form here

And on Sunday, October 21st, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm, we will hold our Annual Membership Meeting at the Fall City Masonic Hall. Our featured speaker will be Lorraine McConaghy, Public Historian with the Seattle Museum of History and Industry. She will talk about her latest book, New Land, North of the Columbia, and about the importance of archival collections all around the state. Download the poster here
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We're hoping to have the 2013 Calendar in the stores in early November. Watch for it!

Jack Kelley has been kind enough to transfer the copyright, inventory, continuing care and future proceeds from his wonderful book, Jack's History of Fall City, into the care of the Fall City Historical Society. Our thanks to Jack for this generous gift. The books are now for sale through the Historical Society.

We now have a facebook page and will be posting photos and other information regularly. If you LIKE our page, you will be notified each time there is a new posting.

We are grateful for the opportunity each month to connect with Fall City via the Fall City Neighbors Newsletter. Watch for news of our events, featured items from our collections and interesting research on local history.

• Download Historical Society Annual Meeting: Sharing the Delights of History
• Click here to download the story of the spectacular collapse of the railroad bridge over the Raging River in 1900. (Trestle collapse 1900 April 2012)
• Download September 2012 Newsletter story about our Fall City Schools . . . Looking Back
• August Tribute to Volunteers

Preserving the Stories of Fall City is now in its second printing, and in April 2011 was awarded the Virginia Marie Folkins Award for "an outstanding historical publication." See link for images.

We hope you will be inspired by Preserving the Stories of Fall City to record and share your own memories. If you would like a Memory Book Workbook for your family history, contact us at the address below. (We ask a donation of $5, to cover the cost of printing.) When you fill it out, we would like your permission to make a copy to add to the Fall City Archives and return the original to you. Your donations of other historical materials are always important and welcome. Photos and documents can be scanned so that the originals remain in your family. If you would like to receive a Memory Book Workbook, please send a note to the Historical Society at P.O. Box 293, Fall City, WA 98024.

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Located upstairs in the United Methodist Church building, the Fall City Historical Society office houses a Reference Library and an archive of historic artifacts, as well as providing a home for our administrative activities. The Library includes:

• Census indexes
• Fall City Cemetery indexes
• Information on Fall City Civil War Veterans
• Historical Photographs
• Archive notebooks of all back issues of the Fall City Neighbors Newsletter
• Fall City Scrapbooks
• And a variety of books and other reference materials

The office is open to the public by appointment only. If you would like to visit or to use the Reference Library, please contact Ruth Pickering at 222-6242. If no answer at this number, call Ruth's cell phone: (206) 999-2022.

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Several levels of membership are available. Yearly membership can be Basic ($15) or Supporting ($50). These memberships are for one year from the time of joining, and a renewal reminder will be sent to you. A Standard Lifetime Membership is $250. Our newest membership category is Lifetime, Treasured Elder, which is available for anyone 80 years old or older, for a donation amount of your choosing. Download a membership form.

The Fall City Historical Society is formed to collect, preserve and interpret the History of the unincorporated town of Fall City and the surrounding area, from the arrival of the Native Americans until the present day, with special emphasis on the period since the first white explorers came through this area (1840). The Society will provide a collection point for books, photographs, documents, artifacts, and other cultural objects that pertain to Fall City history and will strive to make local history visible and accessible in the community through a variety of media, with the ultimate goal of establishing and maintaining a Fall City Museum. The Society will also encourage others to collect, preserve and interpret the history of Fall City.

The Society is a non-profit corporation organized under the Washington Non-Profit Corporation Act, Revised Code of Washington 24.03, and has been granted Federal 501(c)(3) status.

Contact Us: P.O. Box 293, Fall City, WA 98024 or fallcityhistorical@juno.com

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Support for our work from King County Heritage 4Culture is gratefully acknowledged