Clark Museum Research Paper

The Clarke Historical Museum gives a glimpse to our past, run by the love and dedication of people proud to teach and shows a piece of history. The Clark Museum is the largest Humboldt County museum and holds a large collection of northwest Native Indian artifacts from a variety of tribes.
One hundred years ago the Bank of Eureka opened its newly constructed building, presently known as the Clark Museum. The property including the Clark Museum was originally homestead in the 1860s later in 1871, the locally famous Huff House was also built on the same site but the building was then destroyed by a fire in the 1880s. The Bank of Eureka and Savings of Humboldt County opened a two-story brick building. It was lated incorporated October 4,1889, and then open for business July 1,1890. The July of 1911, the brick building was demolished for a new building
Before funding the museum she was a local history teacher for over 40 years at the Eureka High School. The museum was originally named the Clarke Memorial Museum but later renamed the Clarke Historical Museum in 2001. It is now run as a non-profit privately operated organization for uses, benefits, and awareness of the City of Eureka, as well as the local Native Indian tribes. Cecile Clarke purchased the building in 1959, after Angol Cocker moved out in 1956. June 8,1960, the then named Clarke Memorial Museum opened and was detected on August 21,1960, to Clarke's parents. She displayed her collection of native american basketry in 1960. She first started displaying her collection of local Native American basketry. In 1960, when the school ran out of room for her ever increasing collection of local history items, Clarke sold her family sheep ranch and used the money to buy the old Bank of Eureka building and she set up her collection here. People gave her more things for the museum and it continued to