Keyword(s): Gregg Herrington
Second-generation Vancouver restaurateur George Propstra, the son of a Dutch immigrant, opened the first Burgerville USA on March 10, 1961. By 2008, the Vancouver-based fast-food chain had grown to 39...
On October 2, 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, six young instructors opened the doors of a rented ($25 a month) former downtown Vancouver boarding house and 25 students entered Vancouver J...
Railroading in the Pacific Northwest was born in July 1851 near present-day Stevenson, Washington, when Francis A. Chenoweth (1819-1899) built a portage railroad around the treacherous Cascades rapids...
In July 1851, Francis A. Chenoweth (1819-1899), who moved west from Wisconsin in 1849 and settled near present day Bonneville Dam on the north side of the Columbia River, begins operating what can be ...
On September 22, 1887, the Vancouver Register reports that a group of Vancouver, Washington, businessmen led by L. M. Hidden has incorporated the Vancouver, Yakima & Klickitat Railroad. It is envision...
On October 2, 1933, Vancouver Junior College opens its doors in a former boarding house with 25 students enrolled in the fifth junior college in Washington. Tuition was $45 a quarter or $110 for the e...
On September 24, 1958, Clark College President Dwight C. Baird issues student registration No. 1,000 to sophomore David Skeans of Vancouver the week school opens for fall quarter on its new campus. It...
On March 10, 1961, the first Burgerville USA opens on Mill Plain Boulevard in Vancouver, Washington, three miles east of downtown. There's no drive-through lane or inside seating, so all customers ord...
At 8:32 a.m. Sunday morning, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens in Southwest Washington ends months of geologic suspense and erupts, blasting tons of Burlington Northern Railroad property into the air and...
In the early morning darkness on December 15, 1982, three buses loaded with VIPs cross the new Glenn L. Jackson Bridge over the Columbia River from Vancouver to Portland and return. Other than constru...
On October 23, 2007, Vancouver's Burgerville chain announces that the firm will expand its pilot composting and recycling program in an effort to redirect 85 percent of restaurant-generated waste.