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When the federal government transferred 1,700 acres of land on Fidalgo Island and Whidbey Island to the State of Washington in 1925, Deception Pass State Park was barely an idea. For decades, the land had been a military reservation set aside for …
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It's hard to imagine Deception Pass without the bridge. But until 1935, the gap between Fidalgo Island and Whidbey Island could only be crossed by boat. In 1924 a small ferry called the Deception Pass began running between Yokeko Point and Hoypus …
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'Why do we love the sea? Because she has the power to make us think things we like to think.'- Robert Henry
The Old Wharf and SteamshipsLook offshore toward Maylor's Point and you will see a concrete block that remains from Oak Harbor's histori…
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This Navy flagstaff is placed here to honor all those Navy people who have served aboard the Naval Air Station on Whidbey Island, their families, and the people of Oak Harbor who have long supported the Navy mission.
Our National Ensign was flo…
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Before the bridge was completed in 1935, the only way to cross Deception Pass was by boat.
If you wanted to take your car from Whidbey to Fidalgo Island in 1929 your crossing would look like this, aboard the MV Acorn.
Your captain could have…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15ID_the-skagit-a-stately-society_Oak-Harbor-WA.html
The Skagit Indians maintained several villages on Penn Cove. The paramount Skagit chief lived at Snakelum Point, southeast across the cove. The village at Monroe's Landing was called cokwol'a. Cokwol'a was a major village of the Skwdabs, a subgrou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15HE_col-isaac-neff-ebey-rebecca-whitey-ebey_Oak-Harbor-WA.html
In honor of the founderof Island County and his wifeCol. Isaac Neff Ebey - Rebecca Whitey Ebey1818 - 1857 1822-1858Whidbey Island's first permanent settler 1850.Proposed the separation of Island County from Thurston County which was adopted on Jan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15EW_beeksmas-corner_Oak-Harbor-WA.html
Family OriginsThis park is named after the family of Egbert and Betty Beeksma in recognition of the business they started on the site of park and their contribution to the development of Oak Harbor.
Egbert Beeksma was born the Netherlands on Ap…
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Oak Harbor's early "town" was built along the waterfront, and stretched from Maylor's store along Pioneer Way to about a block east of the junction of Flintstone Freeway and Midway and Pioneer.The east end of the town burned in a disastrous fire t…
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Named by Captain George Vancouver 10 June 1792. Feeling that he had been "Deceived" as to the nature of the inner waterway,Port Gardner (now Saratoga Passage) he wrote on his chart "Deception Pass". He honored Master Joseph Whidbey, who found the …