by LACanby | Aug 24, 2021 | Blog, What's New Posts, What's New Posts
Wonder what was going on in Langley 130 years ago? Well, just like today, there was a bear around, real estate was being sold, tourists were visiting, berries were ripening, and fish were abundant.Read on for this August 14, 1891 Island County Times articled penned by...
by LACanby | Aug 11, 2021 | Blog, What's New Posts, What's New Posts
Before it became a public picnic area, the entrance to Double Bluff Beach was a fishing resort known for fly-fishing of silver salmon. It was originally owned by Chris Jensen and later sold to Esther and Crawford Johnston, and still later to Orie and Martha Small in...
by James Canby | Aug 6, 2021 | Blog, What's New Posts, What's New Posts
This article was from our recent Then and Now newsletter…Corydon and Ella (Hart) Melendy moved from South Dakota just three years into their marriage. Ella’s sister had moved to South Whidbey in 1896 and taught school in a one-room log schoolhouse (possibly the...
by James Canby | Aug 5, 2021 | Blog, Notable People, What's New Posts, What's New Posts
Virgil Auvil was born in 1896 in Auviltown, West Virginia, the eldest of 10 children. His father, Wayne, was a farmer who ventured west after his father died in 1909. He worked on farms in Snohomish County.After serving in WWI , Virgil and his brother, Ray, became...
by LACanby | Jul 17, 2021 | Blog, What's New Posts, What's New Posts
The Whidbey Island Fair runs Thursday through Sunday.Help support the South Whidbey Historical Society and Museum by using our parking lot directly across from the Fair next to the Fire Station.The McLeod Cabin, Brooks Hill Cabin and the Ray Gabelein Antique Farm...
by James Canby | Jul 3, 2021 | Blog, What's New Posts, What's New Posts
Whidbey Island has always been a paradise… from the indigenous tribes who lived here year ’round or came for summer fishing and clamming, to early settlers to present day new residents. Check out these land prices in a 1910 advertisement in the publication...
