Clearwater Historical Museum

06/12/2026

FREE chairs
Three of them, as is, just come and take, must load yourself. First come, first serve.
At the
Clearwater Historical Museum
433 Bartlett Street

05/27/2026

The Clearwater Historical Museum will be open on Saturdays 10am to 2pm, along with normal weekdays Tues. - Fri. 10am to 3pm. Sat. start May 30th until the end of August.

05/27/2026

Each spring brought the annual Potlatch Log Drive

05/27/2026

Clearwater Historical Museum has a new featured display about the Clearwater River Log Drives that brought logs down from the North Fork of the Clearwater River to the Potlatch Forest, Inc. mill in Lewiston from 1928 to 1971.

The Clearwater River Log Drive began in 1928 and continued until 1971. The Log Drive became a 90-mile river trek from the upper reaches of the North Fork of the Clearwater to the Potlatch Forest Inc. saw mill at Lewiston.

Approximately half of the timber that went to the saw mill was transported by railroad and half was transported on the river. The Clearwater River Log Drive of 1971 was the last major white-water sawlog river drive in the West.

In 1971 the completion of Dworshak Dam contributed to the demise of the Log Drive and inundated the stretch of the North Fork from Ahsahka to several miles beyond Camp T.

The wanigan served as a floating bunkhouse and cookhouse for the 34-man crew of river drivers. On average the Log Drive began around May 8.
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Regular hours at the museum are Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday Summer hours will begin May 30 and be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Exhibit Prepared by Sandra Goffinet, daughter of Charles McCollister
Photos from:
Charles McCollister, Jack Gruber, Hugh Burgess, Earl Roberge
Forest History Society and Potlatch Forest Incorporated, Archives
Clearwater Historical Museum Photo Collection

04/21/2026

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04/02/2026

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