Port of Kalama Interpretive Center
Explore this new facility that celebrates Kalama’ s unique place in Pacific Northwest history as a transportation and commercial hub, and is designed to replicate a traditional waterfront warehouse of the 1800s. Exhibits track Kalama’ s first inhabitants, the Cowlitz Tribe, and the settlers that followed over the next hundred years, including renowned Oregon Trail writer Ezra Meeker. Displays illustrate how Kalama’ s particular landscape gave birth to a booming transportation system, impacting the area both culturally and economically.
Lelooska Totem Pole at Mountain Timber Market
The two-story atrium of the Mountain Timber Market showcases a suspended 140-foot totem pole previously displayed in the nearby park. For nearly five decades the totem pole, created in the early 1960s by Chief Don Lelooska, towered over the port waterfront until weather forced officials to take it down in 2019 to restore. Now it is visible from inside the Market located only a few steps away from the dock.
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