About Colville, Washington

Colville is a city of 4,917 people and the county seat of Stevens County, in the Colville River Valley. Its roots lie a little over three miles northeast at Pinkney City, a frontier town that grew up in 1859 to supply the Army's new Fort Colville. That town took its name from Captain Pinkney Lugenbeel, the fort's first commander. When the Army closed the fort in 1882, merchants and families left, some taking whole buildings with them, and rebuilt in the valley at a new town named for the fort.

The new town was platted on February 28, 1883, and for a short time carried the name Belmont. That year the county records moved into a building owned by John U. Hofstetter, and the courthouse itself followed on January 1, 1884. The Spokane Falls and Northern Railway reached town in the summer of 1889, bringing a short boom, the region's first bank and several brick buildings, and Colville was incorporated on June 7, 1890. Because the city counts its start from Pinkney City, it held its centennial in 1959.

“After peddling the necessary amount of hot air, they finally succeeded in reaching an agreement with John U. Hofstetter and John Wynne as to the division of the spoils.”
Thomas Graham, Colville Collections
  • The Father of ColvilleJohn U. Hofstetter, a Swiss immigrant, served as a soldier at Fort Colville, then hauled freight and took up a homestead. In 1874 he opened a brewery on land that later became part of Colville, and it may have helped decide where the new town went. He provided the building for the county records, became the city's first mayor, and with his wife took in and fed strangers and newcomers.
  • The Old Dominion strikeEarly in 1885, three prospectors, W. H. Kearney, Al E. Benoist and E. E. Alexander, struck a rich vein of gold, silver and lead about six miles east of town, and the Old Dominion Mine opened on the spot. It grew into the biggest lead and silver producer in Northeast Washington. Miners and prospectors poured into the area, and Colville grew as the town where they bought their supplies.
  • Three courthousesColville's first courthouse, built of wood, went up in 1886. A brick courthouse replaced it in 1898 and stood until 1939, when it came down to make room for the present courthouse, designed by the Spokane architect Gustav A. Pehrson.
  • 37 years of Barman'sLouis Strauss came to Colville from Germany with his family in 1902 and took a job at the Barman Department Store under his uncle, David Barman. In 1909 Strauss bought the store in partnership with Sigmund Dilsheimer and Lazarus Dannheiser. They kept the Barman name, and the store stayed in business for 37 years.
  • A newspaper since 1896The Statesman-Examiner, Colville's weekly paper, began in 1896 as the Statesman Index and merged with the rival Examiner in 1948. Charles T. Graham owned and published it for years, and his son Patrick J. Graham carried it on.

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Places and landmarks2

  • Colville City Hall
  • Vaagen Field

Streets and roads92

  • South Main Street
  • North Main Street
  • Main Street
  • North Highway
  • East Third Avenue
  • East First Avenue
  • South Elm Street
  • West First Avenue
  • West Fifth Avenue
  • Garden Homes Drive
  • Graham Road
  • East Birch Avenue
  • South Raildroad Street
  • North Pine Street
  • Buena Vista Drive
  • South Cedar Street
  • East Sixth Avenue
  • Laundry Road
  • East Columbia Avenue
  • North Maple Street
  • North Cedar Street
  • East Hawthorne Avenue
  • East Hawthorne
  • East Seventh Avenue
  • East Ivy Avenue
  • North Oak Street
  • Marcus-Colville Road
  • North Walnut Street
  • North Elm Street
  • East Eighth Avenue
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  • East Second Avenue
  • North Lincoln Street
  • North Railroad Street
  • North Wynne Street
  • South Hofstetter Street
  • South Alder Street
  • South Miner Street
  • South Walnut Street
  • South Washington Street
  • South Wynne Street
  • North Madison Street
  • South Jefferson Street
  • South Oak Street
  • East Forest Avenue
  • North Washington Street
  • East Tenth Avenue
  • East Ninth Avenue
  • Evergreen Way
  • Ring-Neck Loop
  • Fairway Loop
  • East Fifth Avenue
  • East Fourth Avenue
  • Buena Vista Road
  • Whitetail Way
  • Louis Perras Road
  • Oakshott Road
  • Aladdin Road
  • Olympic Way
  • South Chester Street
  • West Sixth Avenue
  • Tara Drive
  • South Silke Road
  • West Ninth Avenue
  • South Pine Street
  • East Astor Avenue
  • East Elep Avenue
  • West Eighth Avenue
  • East Glen Avenue
  • South Summit Street
  • East Dominion Avenue
  • North Hofstetter Street
  • West Third Avenue
  • South Maple Street
  • West Cedar Loop Road
  • West Astor Avenue
  • West Seventh Avenue
  • East Eleventh Avenue
  • Degrief Road
  • Elep Avenue
  • North Silke Road
  • South Madison Street
  • South Crestview Drive
  • West Second Avenue
  • South Rae Street
  • West Cedar Loop
  • East Juniper Avenue
  • Cody Lane
  • Hudesman Lane
  • West Tenth Avenue
  • North Hoffstetter Street
  • Southeast Park Drive
  • North Louis Perras Road

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