Voices & Maps of Clatsop 2026 – Exploring the CCHS Digital Archive and the Future of Local Preservation

Discover how the Clatsop County Historical Society is preserving the stories, photographs, maps, newspapers, and voices that define our region in Voices & Maps of Clatsop 2026: A Digital Preservation Campaign. This PDF provides an overview of the CCHS digital archive, highlighting how a local effort launched in 2018 has grown into one of the Pacific Northwest’s most active community preservation programs. Today, thousands of items and tens of thousands of digital files are freely available online to researchers, students, and history lovers around the world.

Inside, you’ll find links to many featured collections—including city directories, yearbooks, pioneer interviews, church records, Clatsop Plains history, Astoria Golf & Country Club archives, and more—along with statistics showing the archive’s remarkable public reach. The PDF also outlines future plans to expand preservation capacity through new large-format scanning equipment and advanced video editing tools, ensuring that oversized maps, rare documents, and oral histories can continue to be saved for future generations.