Historic Columbia River Highway
Hood River County Museum, OR

The Hood River County Museum leads the visitor through the time of the area's earliest inhabitants to white settlement in 1854 to the development of the valley as a world-famous fruit center.

The museum owes its beginning to the Pioneer Historical Society whose members in 1907 began collecting clippings and biographies to provide "in permanent form the history of the Hood River Valley and Mid-Columbia section."

In 1954, the County Court assumed responsibility for the collection. In 1978, the present building was dedicated. The museum building and the collections are now owned by Hood River County and operated by an appointed board.