by James Canby | Feb 15, 2022 | SW People & Families
While Bailey was establishing a home, a business and a family on the southern tip of Whidbey and Raphael Brunns was filing his claim on Mutiny Bay, another white settler, William T. Johnson, settled on Double Bluff. Few written records concerning him have been...
by James Canby | Feb 15, 2022 | SW People & Families
Into the unexplored, untamed wilderness of dense forest, wild animals, tangled underbrush and Indians that was South Whidbey in 1850 there came a twenty-six year old Virginian, Robert Bailey, a trader intent on doing business with the Indians. His destination was the...
by James Canby | Feb 14, 2022 | SW People & Families
For about five years after his arrival at Mutiny Bay, Nathaniel Porter’s only white neighbors on the western shore were the Olivers, Johns and Johnsons. Bailey’s establishment on the south end of the island was almost unreachable by land over Indian trails through...
by James Canby | Feb 13, 2022 | SW People & Families
By the latter part of 1850 Port Ludlow and Port Townsend which was the Port of Entry for Puget Sound, were centers of shipping activities; seamen whose ships had touched South Whidbey shores were circulating rumors in those ports that the island was a veritable...
by James Canby | Feb 13, 2022 | SW People & Families
While Bailey was establishing a home, a business and a family on the southern tip of Whidbey and Raphael Brunns was filing his claim on Mutiny Bay, another white settler, William T. Johnson, settled on Double Bluff. Few written records concerning him have been...
by Laura Canby | Mar 6, 2018 | Blog, Notable People, SW People & Families
Think you have a tough commute? Consider the weekly one Miss Julia Mackie had in 1914.After graduating high school in Everett, Julia was hired as a teacher in a logging camp near present day Honeymoon Bay.It was a large Pope and Talbot logging camp (later named the...
