Fall City creates historical signs

Published 11:25 am Thursday, October 22, 2015

The Fall City Historical Society has begun an extensive effort to provide historic signs for many locations in town. A template has been designed, for overall cohesiveness of the signage, and development of signs for the Fall City Masonic Hall and the Neighbor-Bennett House, both on the National Register of Historic Places, is under way.

Each sign will include a QR code, the familiar pattern seen many places these days, allowing mobile devices to access information. On the sign, the code will link to a more extensive report on the location, with additional background and images. These reports will reside on the Fall City Historical Society’s website, www.fallcity.org/historical.

The historical society is also considering making site information available in a GPS-linked format for mobile devices, such as the Stqry app.

This project, and many other programs from the society are supported in part by King County Heritage 4Culture.

Walking tours will be offered soon. When a wide range of background information has been assembled, an updated Fall City Walking Tour will be made available, both in printed and digital form. Volunteers are being recruited to serve as tour guides at times.

Another guided tour, of the Fall City Cemetery, is also being developed.

Coming up

The annual Fall City Calendar for 2016 is now available, the 10th in the series and the second in full color. It is available for purchase at the Farmhouse Market and will be featured with other ‘History in your Hand’ items at the Fall City Holiday Market Dec. 5 at Chief Kanim Middle School.

See www.fallcityhistorical.org for a preview of the calendar and instructions for ordering by mail.