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Whidbey Island was inhabited by members of the Lower Skagit, Swinomish, Suquamish, Snohomish and other Native American tribes. The Salishan name for the island was Tscha-kole-chy. [ 12 ] These were peaceful groups who lived off the sea and land, with fishing, harvesting nuts, berries and roots, which they preserved over the winter.
Oct 30, 2022 · In the summer of 1851, William Wallace and his wife, Rufinda, were first to claim on Crescent Harbor. Their daughter, Paulowna, was the first white child born on Whidbey. In 1855 the Wallaces started the island's first formal school, and William is credited with shipping over its first horse.
Whidbey Island was named Whidbey’s Island by British explorer George Vancouver in 1792 to honor Joseph Whidbey, the first to circumnavigate his namesake island. In 1790, Spanish explorer Manuel Quimper gave the name Boca de Fidalgo to the opening of the present Rosario Strait. A map from the Eliza expedition of 1791 uses Canal de Fidalgo to ...
Of all the newly founded communities on Puget Sound that got their start by 1851, only central Whidbey Island preserves both the architecture and landscape that bear witness to the first dramatic seasons of American settlement, the 1850’s & 1860’s. “The country in the vicinity of this branch of the sea is, according to Mr. Whidbey’s ...
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Early History of Whidbey Island. Whidbey Island was once inhabited by members of the Lower Skagit, Swinomish, Suquamish, Snohomish and other Native American tribes. The first known European sighting of Whidbey Island was during the 1790 Spanish expedition of Manuel Quimper and Gonzalo López de Haro. Joseph Whidbey, master of HMS Discovery ...
Captain George Vancouver noted in his journals that Master Joseph Whidbey (the island’s namesake), on their visit in 1792 saw two hundred people at this location. SHET’LH-shet-lhuts (‘burnt leaves’), on the west side of South Whidbey Island, at Bush Point in the Freeland area, had three longhouses, a potlatch house, and a cemetery.
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Oct 17, 2024 · Native Tribes of Whidbey and Camano Islands. The mission of the Island County Historical Society & Museum is to collect, preserve, and interpret the rich and unique cultural heritage and history of Island County, WA to include the history of its earliest inhabitants - Coast Salish Native Americans. For my Capstone, I developed an interactive ...
