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Education Center on Pearson Field. / 45.6225; -122.6545. The Education Center on Pearson Field,[ 1] formerly Pearson Field Education Center (PFEC) is an educational facility for young people ages kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12). It is located in Pearson Field, Vancouver, Washington. The center provides programs in aviation-based science ...
78002738 [1] Added to NRHP. December 1, 1978. The House of Providence, also known as The Academy (or Academy building), [2][3] is a former orphanage and school located in Vancouver, Washington. It was built c. 1873 by Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
List of Indian reservations in Washington
Camp Bonneville. Coordinates: 45°41′17″N 122°24′14″W. Camp Bonneville is a former United States Army post located near Vancouver, Washington. It was established in 1909 and used by the U.S. Army as a rifle range and weapons training facility for troops stationed at Fort Vancouver. For several years, Camp Bonneville also housed ...
66000370 [1] Added to NRHP. October 15, 1966. The Vancouver Barracks was the first United States Army base located in the Pacific Northwest, established in 1849, in what is now contemporary Vancouver, Washington. [2] It was built on a rise 20 feet (6.1 m) above the Fort Vancouver fur trading station established by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC).
Vancouver, Washington
Larch Mountain, elevation 3,480 feet (1,060 m), is the highest free-standing peak in Clark County, Washington. (The andesite plugs Pyramid Rock and Sturgeon Rock are higher but are outcroppings on ridges of Silver Star Mountain .) It is laced by a network of gravel roads as part of the Yacolt Burn State Forest.
The headquarters of the new unit were in Downtown Portland, which was "the centre of the great spruce area of the Pacific Northwest," [2] while the division's induction, training, and operations center was established at Vancouver Barracks across the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington, [3] [6] [7] where it employed about 19,000 soldiers. [8]