Save the date! The Magical History Tour dinner cruise extravaganza returns to the river aboard sternwheeler Columbia Gorge on Saturday, October 5, 2024.
Join Visit Cascade Locks chair Emily Seely on the museum front porch to make a mason bee house! This FREE activity is part of the first Cascade Locks Earth Day Celebration.
The museum opens for the season on Friday, March 1, 2024. Come see the updates and seasonal exhibits!
Our favorite winter fundraiser is back! This year, you could win this beautiful twin-sized Christmas quilt! Locally made by JoAnn Wittenberg and quilted by Diana Reedy Van Winkle, this quilt has a cotton front, 80/20 batting, and cozy flannel backing.
Tickets are on sale now. Get one chance to win for $5, or 5 chances to win for $20. You can purchase tickets online for local pickup. To purchase in person, come see Janice at the PTO Holiday Marketplace, Deb at Hometown Christmas, or catch your favorite museum board member or employee around town. Only 200 tickets will be sold, so get yours ASAP.
The drawing will take place on Friday, 12/22 at 12:22 pm. The great Cascade Locks bard John Stipan will be singing carols outside the museum starting at 12:15pm. Join us in person, or tune into the live broadcast on our Facebook page to sing along and see who won.
Need something special from the gift shop for your holiday stocking stuffers? Want to win our annual quilt raffle?
We will be at the Cascade Locks PTO Holiday Marketplace with local history books, local attraction merch, and raffle tickets on Saturday, Dec 2!
Join Cascade Locks Museum Director Janice Crane at the History Museum of Hood River County for November’s “Hidden History” event!
A stretch of tumbling whitewater five miles long, the Cascades of the Columbia River were the greatest barrier to inland river trade and travel in the Pacific Northwest. One solution, the Cascade Locks and Canal, took nearly 18 years, hundreds of laborers, and the removal of over 800,000 cubic yards of rock and debris to complete. Opened in 1896, millions of dollars in freight and hundreds of thousands of passengers made their way through the locks. Made redundant in 1938 by the completion of the Bonneville Dam, the remnants of the structure are still visible today in Cascade Locks, Oregon.
FREE – $10 Donation appreciated
We’re back with more local history trivia! Join Executive Director Janice Crane at Gorges Beer Co. for an evening of learning. Topic is the Cascade Locks and Canal.
It's time for the fall Museums of the Gorge meeting! Please join us on Tuesday, November 7, from 10am-2:30pm, at the History Museum of Hood River County. Please register here to attend
Agenda:
10am-12pm - Networking time, updates roundtable, and museum tour.
12:00pm-1pm - Lunch! Catering plan is pending. We will send out ordering and reminder information to registrants no less than one week before the meeting. Please plan to contribute $10-15 toward lunch.
1pm-2:30pm - Presentation: Museum Collections Hazards with Averie Foster from Oregon OSHA. Averie is an Occupational Health Consultant, and has been managing a project this year consulting on hazards and hazard mitigation in museum collection objects and practices. Want to learn about how to safely identify and handle items with arsenic, mercury, lead, and other nasty stuff? Want to hear the data about what they found at other museums? This is the talk for you! Averie will speak for part of the program, and there will be time for questions and answers.
Please register here to attend
About MOTG:
Museums of the Gorge is an informal networking and professional development group. Meetings are free to attend and open to museum pros, EMPs, volunteers, and museum supporters and enthusiasts. If you're working with a small and underserviced museum, this is a great opportunity to get face-to-face contact with museum professionals in our region.
Join us to celebrate the end of “museum season” with a special TUESDAY opening! Get in the spirit with our creepy dolls, mannequins, taxidermy, and rusty tools. Free admission for costumed visitors. Candy provided, but must be consumed outside.
Save the date to join us for Magical History MASQUERADE
All of the fun of the old Magical History Tour BACK ON THE BOAT with fancy masks. Join us aboard sternwheeler Columbia Gorge for a light dinner, dancing, live music, a silent auction, raffle, and costume contest.
Tickets are on sale now! Get yours today.
We’re back with more local history trivia! Join Executive Director Janice Crane at Gorges Beer Co. for an evening of laughing and learning.
Fitting with the season, this quarter's theme is "Back to School." Trivia questions will be lifted from our 2023 seasonal exhibit about Cascade Locks Schools, with a special segment for the "local legends" shared with us by CLHS alumni and faculty while they were enjoying the exhibit.
This might be the local-est history trivia we have done yet!
Join us at the Cascade Locks Historical Museum for our second annual PONY PARTY! This event is a celebration of the history of transportation in the Columbia River Gorge, featuring the Oregon Pony, the first locomotive built entirely on the West Coast.
Admission is $5 for ages 6 and up, and free for Cascade Locks residents and museum members. Entry to the event includes a bounce house, live music, games, crafts, photo ops, and museum admission. Concessions, souvenirs, and prize drawing tickets will be available for purchase.
Live music this year will be a jam session. Bring your instrument and play along with your host, museum secretary John Stipan.
Sponsored by Buddy’s Arcade
We’re back with more local history trivia! Join Executive Director Janice Crane at Gorges Beer Co. for an evening of learning.
This May, come prove you’re smarter than a 4th grader! We’re doing a refresher on Oregon State history at the 4th grade level. Show off your knowledge, or catch up on what you missed growing up in another state.
Join Executive Director Janice Crane up at Thunder Island Brewing to get your signed copy of our new publication, Images of America: Cascade Locks and Canal.
We’re bringing PROM back to the Cascade Locks School Gym. Join us for decades of dancing in your fancy finery.
This event will be open to community members of all ages. Tickets on sale now.
In response to community feedback, we have adjusted the ticket prices for this event. Tickets are now $15 for youth (6-17) and seniors (60+) and $25 for adults. It’s a new event, and we thank you for bearing with us while we ironed it out!
What’s included?
3 hours of dancing hosted by DJ G. Request your favorite dance hits!
Heavy snacks (deli platters, cheese and crackers, fruit & veggie trays, chips, cookies, etc.) and soft drinks
A photo booth with prom props
What’s the theme?
“Prom.” We combed through the Cascade Locks High School yearbooks. The decorations are all blue and gold, and inspired by decades of dances in the gym.
Can we buy tickets at the door?
Tickets will be available at the door pending availability. We encourage guests to buy tickets in advance to keep the check-in line moving.
Is there a dress code?
We are not enforcing a dress code at this event. We encourage attendees to dress for what “prom” means to you. Is it taffeta and poofy sleeves? Powder blue leisure suit? Full-skirted rhinestone evening gown? Stayed home in your pjs? Tuxedo? The same dress you wear to every nice event? Clubby mini dress? Dad’s oversized suit? It’s open to interpretation.
Will we be able to go into the school?
The ADA restrooms for this event are inside the main school building. You will be able to access the hallway between the gym and the entrance to the school.
Please note: no alcohol, tobacco, or drugs are allowed on school grounds.
Hood River County Prevention Department
Steve Irving- Cascade Locks High School Alumni Registrar
It’s finally museum season! Join us to celebrate our seasonal opening on Thursday, March 2, between 10am and 5pm. Be the first to see the new and updated exhibits, and maybe even win a prize.
Cascade Locks Historical Museum will be open from 10am-5pm Thursday-Monday, closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays, in 2023.
CANCELLED- We will NOT be able to host bingo games this Wednesday, March 1, but you can still visit Thunder Island Brewing.
Thunder Island Brewing will donate $1 from each drink purchased during the event to the Friends of the Cascade Locks Museum from all purchases between 5pm and closing. Thunder Island Brewing has graciously invited us to host a second event this year since the weather for our January event was a mess, so let’s show them how grateful we are with a big turnout to celebrate!
Join us at Gorges Beer for a pub night! Join us for local history trivia, bad movie jokes, learning, and prizes! $1 from each drink will be donated to the museum.
It’s back! Join us to play some bingo at Thunder Island Brewing while staying cozy in your favorite winter onesie! Community night runs from 5pm-closing, bingo games will start at 6pm and go until we run out of prizes.
Thunder Island Brewing will donate $1 from each drink purchased during the event to the Friends of the Cascade Locks Museum from all purchases between 5pm and closing.
It’s back! You could win this beautiful twin-sized quilt, made just for us by the Bridge of the Gods Quilters. This Christmas-themed quilt features poinsettia and Santa prints with a cozy flannel backing.
The drawing will be held on Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 10:30am PST. Join Board Secretary and Port Commissioner John Stipan on the front porch of the Cascade Locks Historical Museum for musical entertainment before the drawing. The drawing and performance will also be streamed on Facebook live.
Raffle tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20. Only 200 tickets will be sold, so reserve yours today!
Looking for holiday gift ideas? Come see our table at the Cascade Locks Elementary PTO’s Holiday Marketplace! Get your holiday shopping on in the gym at Cascade Locks Elementary School.
Janice will be signing copies of Images of America: Cascade Locks and Canal. This is also your chance to preview this year’s quilt in-person and get your holiday quilt raffle tickets! We also have those super-cool train conductor hats for your stockings.
It’s back! We’re hosting a screening of the History Museum of Hood River County’s 2022 Cemetery Tales. This year’s production features musicians of Hood River County.
Join us in the Pavilion to screen the film. More details to be released.
Join us at Gorges Beer for a pub night! Join us for local history trivia, learning, and prizes! $1 from each drink will be donated to the museum. Books and calendars will be available for purchase; stock up for the holidays!
Join us to celebrate the last day that the museum is open in 2022! Get in the spirit with our creepy dolls, mannequins, taxidermy, and rusty tools. Free admission for costumed visitors. Candy provided, but must be consumed outside.
Join Executive Director Janice Crane on the front porch of the Cascade Locks Historical Museum to get your signed copy of our new publication, Images of America: Cascade Locks and Canal.
It’s here! Images of America: Cascade Locks and Canal officially releases 8/8/2022! Join us in the Cascade Locks Marine Park Pavilion from 4pm-6pm to celebrate and be the first to get your signed copy. Light refreshments will be served.
Join us to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the Oregon Pony, the first locomotive to run on the first railroad in the state of Oregon! It provided portage around the Cascade rapids on the Columbia River.
The party goes from 10am-3pm. Admission to the event is $5 for people ages 4 and up. Admission to the event is free for museum members and children 3 and under.
This event will take place on the lawn in front of the Museum, right next to the Oregon Pony. We’ll have games, crafts, activities, story time, prizes, and a bounce house.
Our 2022 membership drive is back this July! Join or renew between July 1 and July 16 and receive two tickets to ride Sternwheeler Columbia Gorge.
Members receive unlimited admission to the Cascade Locks Historical Museum for one year from date of purchase. Members also receive free or reduced admission to museum events. Join us and receive free admission to our upcoming celebration of the 160th anniversary of the Oregon Pony.
Join us for bingo and brews at Thunder Island Brewing Company! Thunder Island will donate $1 from every drink purchased from 5pm-9pm.
The museum will host bingo games beginning at 6:30 pm. Bingo cards are $2 each. Prizes include several gift baskets. Minors under 18 are allowed to play with a parent or guardian present.
We have sold all 100 raffle tickets for our 2021 Holiday Quilt Raffle. Tune in to Facebook Live at 3pm on Friday, December 17, to see if you won!
Did you visit our 2020 quilt exhibit and wish you could have your very own hand-sewn quilt? Now is your chance to win one! Get tickets now for our 2021 Holiday Quilt Raffle. This beautiful 99”x 99” (approximately queen sized) quilt was sewn entirely by hand by Rose Dominguez.
Tickets are available now for pickup at the museum. Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20. The drawing will take place on December 17, 2021 at 3pm at the museum. Join us on the front porch, or watch on Facebook Live!
Cascade Locks Historical Museum is delighted to host an in-person screening of The History Museum of Hood River County's 2021 Cemetery Tales. Join us in the Marine Park Pavilion at 6:30 PM on Friday, November 12. This event is free and open to the public. Face coverings are required at this event.
Cemetery Tales is an annual event in which local actors bring stories of the past to life. The 2021 lineup features the stories of Arline Moore, Ray Sato, Hattie Redmond, Cap McCan, Jose and Maria Castilla, The Coe Family, and Reuben Crawford.
The film runs for 76 minutes. Director Joe Garoutte will be available for questions and answers after the screening.
This free screening is sponsored by Ron Cohen and Christie Smith.
Donations collected at the screening will be split between Cascade Locks Historical Museum and The History Museum of Hood River County.
