The Murals

In observance of the state Centennial in 1988, the State of Washington sponsored eighty statewide projects through chairs First Lady Jean Gardner and Secretary of State Ralph Munro. In Grays Harbor, the celebration was kicked off in Aberdeen with the dedication of an initial four murals on November 11, 1988. Only one of these remains today — The History of Transportation at the Transit Center by Jenny Fisher (restored in 2012 and currently threatened with demolition). By the end of the celebration, there were forty murals in Grays Harbor, ten of which were in Aberdeen. Today, only five of those ten still exist.

It is the goal of Our Aberdeen’s Murals on the Map project to restore, document, and create new murals throughout the downtown corridor.

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