PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Historical Society’s department-store-sized garage sale is planned today and Saturday.

The giant sale will be from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day at the former Lincoln School at West Eighth and South C streets.

Tools, clothing, books, household items, furniture, crafts, paintings, picture frames, blanket hangings and collectibles are among the items for sale.

Visitors also can see the progress of the continued restoration of the 1916 brick building.

Many of the partially renovated rooms house sale items in “departments” that include kitchenware, men’s and women’s clothing, holiday decorations, furniture and jewelry.

Collectibles

The collectibles department includes cott­on christening gowns, a full set of antique porcelain spice rack containers, several sets of sterling silverware, cross-stitch items and an accordion.

The giant sale is the historical society’s biggest annual fundraiser, which helps fund the Museum at the Carnegie and other historical society operations as well as restoration of the old school site.

The school site was purchased by the historical society in 1991 at a cost of $210,000 and will house the Clallam County Museum and Resource Center.

Now, the site hosts both a research library and an artifacts center.

The sale will be continued next weekend, open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, which will be half-price day, and Saturday, Sept. 10, when remaining items will be sold for a “buck a bag.”

For more information about the garage sale, phone the historical society’s office at 360-452-2662 or email artifact@olypen.com.