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Discover

THE
GORGE HERITAGE MUSEUM

Our Mission

The Mission of the Museum and Society is to discover, preserve. and disseminate knowledge about the history of Western Klickitat County and Eastern Skamania County, WA

What Makes Us Special

Old Country Store

Curated by several Charter members and collected from past West Klickitat County businesses

Native American & Pioneer Displays

Relics, baskets, photos, tools, artifacts and more of Klickitat and Columbia River Gorge tribes and the Early Pioneers

Historic Church Location

Located in the old Bingen Congregational Church and needing room to grow

October 29, 1805

"Those people (Klickitats) are friendly gave us to eate fish Beries, nuts bread of roots & Drid beries and we Call this the friendly Village We purchased 12 dogs of them & 4 Sacks of Pounded fish, and Some fiew Dried Berries and proceeded on at 4 miles further we landed to Smoke a pipe with the people of a village of 11 houses we found those people also friendly Their Village is Situated imediately below the mouth of a River

—William Clark 

87.113.6  Underwood fishing scene on White Salmon River..jpg

Ask Us Anything

202 E Humboldt St. Bingen, WA 98605

gorgeheritagem@gmail.com | (509) 281-3033 | Tax EIN: 91-1288395

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