Digital Collection

• Tri-City Herald: Obituaries & Death Notices – 2000-Recent
• Tri-City Herald: Multi-Generational Photos – 2004-Recent
• Tri-City Herald: Wedding Anniversaries – 2004-Recent
• Tri-City Herald: A Look Back: Pictures From Earlier Days – 2004-Recent
• Early Births (approx. 1903-1907) Reported in the Newspaper
• Early Marriages (approx. 1903-1907) Reported in the Newspaper

Government Records

Here are some sites with other local records online. (Note these are not on our site and are not searchable from here.)

Images

• Hanford Site Photo Gallery:  History, operation and cleanup of the Hanford site near Richland, WA.  Use keywords Children, Hanford (last few pages are historical photos), People, School, Structures (historical buildings) and White Bluffs to location historical photos.
• Benton County, WA USGenWeb Site includes School Photographs, click here for names for searching.
• Tri-City Herald’s Historical Photo Collection:
  • Atomic Frontier Days
  • Hanford & White Bluffs
  • Kennewick, Kennewick 3, Kennewick 4, Kennewick 5
  • Life at Hanford 1944
  • Pasco, Pasco 3, Pasco 4
  • Richland, Richland 3
• Washington Rural Heritage:  Collections for Connell in Franklin County, Benton City and Prosser in Benton County and Grandview (near the eastern edge of Benton County).  Potentially includes images, documents, video and/or audio. Date range for the whole collection is 1860s – 1999.
• Richland Flood of 1948 including memories from people who lived through it.

• Benton County Tombstone Transcription Project
• Franklin County Tombstone Transcription Project
• Benton County Internment.net
• Franklin County Internment.net
• USGenWeb Benton County Cemetery page
• USGenWeb Franklin County Cemetery page
• Find A Grave where you can choose which country, state and county to search

• Tri-City Herald Death Notices
• Tri-City Herald Obituaries available through Legacy.com, recent obits for free; older ones for a fee
• Mid-Columbia Library’s Tri-City Herald Obituaries 1964-recent. Start at Mid Columbia’s Digital Resources page and look for the Tri-City Herald Obituaries entry.

• Washington State Archives – Digital Archives birth, marriage, death, land, court, census, photos and many other record types

Need More Historical Information

• Richland History
  • a short history
  • a digital copy of “Home Blown, the history of the homes of Richland” published for Richland’s 35th anniversary
  • a history of Richland street names including those created by the Manhattan Engineer District.
• Richland Police History.
• Life in Richland, the Richland Bombers – Alumni Links is a collection of all things Richland.  Scroll down to the “Sites of Interest” block.
  • Columbians, Cougars & Warriors — school yearbooks 1942-1971.
  • Grade School class pictures — 8 schools covering the future graduating classes of 1949-1987.
  • Funeral Notices — from Tri-Cities and elsewhere; organized by surname at high school graduation.  Often include yearbook photos.
  • The Gallery, Misc. Pictures … — old time pictures of Richland businesses & locations.
  • Houses that Hanford Built — the alphabet homes of Richland.
• Manhattan Project National Historical Park — creation of the park.
• Hanford Historic B-Reactor Tour — video introduction to the Manhattan Project plus links to many other videos about Hanford.
• B Reactor Museum Association – history, photos, videos explaining the reactor construction, operation.
• Hanford History Project – oral histories, White Bluffs families, pre-World War 2 & post World War 2 & B Reactor, Richland newspapers & photographs.  Hanford History Project is a physical and online archive of history about Hanford nuclear production facilities & the surounding towns (now Tri-Cities).