Camano Island
| Camano Island | ||
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| Waters | Puget Sound ( Pacific Ocean ) | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 11 ′ N , 122 ° 30 ′ W | |
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| surface | 102.99 km² | |
| Residents | 13,358 (2000) 130 inhabitants / km² |
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Camano Island is an island in Possession Sound , which forms part of Puget Sound in northwest Washington state . The island is located in Island County between the mainland and Whidbey Island , where Coupeville is the county's main town and from which it is separated by the Saratoga Passage . Davis Slough lies between Camano Island and Snohomish County on the mainland . A bridge connects the island in the northeast with the mainland.
In 2000, Camano Island had 13,358 residents. The area of the island is 102.99 km². The largest lake is Kristoferson Lake.
history
Members of the Kikalos and the Snohomish lived on the island in pre-European times . They called the island Kal-lut-chin , "land jumping into a bay".
The current name of the island goes back to Jacinto Caamaño , who led one of the last Spanish voyages of discovery to British Columbia and Alaska in 1792 . In 1825, part of the southern tip of Camano Island broke off and fell into the sea. This Great Slide caused a tsunami that killed the population on Hat Island to the south, within sight of Seattle . The Tulalip did not repopulate the island, but only went to it to collect mussels.
Charles Wilkes , who mapped the region from 1838 to 1842, named the island MacDonough Island in memory of Thomas MacDonough and his victory in the Battle of Lake Champlain during the 1812-1814 war between Great Britain and the United States. Henry Kellett replaced this name with Camano in 1847 as part of the British mapping effort . The governor of Washington Territory , Isaac Stevens , named the island Perry Island .
Island County was officially incorporated on January 6, 1853. It was separated from Thurston County and originally included what are now Snohomish , Skagit , Whatcom and San Juan Counties . Today the county includes only six uninhabited islands besides Whidbey and Camano Island, namely Smith Island in the west, Deception and Pass Island in the Deception Pass , and Ben Ure, Strawberry and Baby Island in the Saratoga Passage.
The first white residents came in 1855, at the same time the Snohomish and their relatives had to leave the island and were relocated to the Tulalip reservation . The new residents lived from logging until they were replaced by rural settlers. The lumberjacks named the island Crow Island , Crow Island .
One of the first settlers was the Scot Alexander Spithill (1824-1920), who initially lived in Utsalady. He came to the island in October 1856, founded a postal company with five Indians, and worked in the area around what would later become Marysville for Grennan & Craney on the north end of the island. In 1857 he married the Indian Hessie Turner in Utsalady, with whom he had four children. In his third marriage, also to an Indian woman, he married Anastasia Newman, with whom he had nine children. He set up the first known logging camp at Allen Slough. He worked on the Tulalip reservation in the late 1960s, but returned to Marysville in 1890, which received town charter in 1891. As a Republican, he sat in the city council.
State parks
20 km southwest of Stanwood , the Camano Island State Park was created in 1949 , with 500 helpers from the island and from Stanwood on duty. During the last ice age , an ice sheet 1.5 km thick covered the island. The glacier movements gave the region its present-day profile.
In 2008, Cama Beach State Park was created in the southwest of the island, where facilities for tourists had existed since the 1930s, which were placed under protection and are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places . There is also a nature trail that opens up the natural sights, but also the sites of the Tulalip . From the 1880s to around 1900 there was a logging camp here. The modest resort goes back to LeRoy Stradley, who founded it in 1934. It was the only one on the island until 1989.
Karen Hamalainen and Sandra Worthington decided in 1993 not to sell the area to private investors, but to give it to the state for only 60% of the market price. In 2001, the restoration work was so advanced that the resort was granted protection status. In 2002, a burial site was found during construction, which the Tulalip believed to be a place of their ancestors. They offered the government to buy the area, but they refused. The Swinomish , Samish and Upper Skagit also sent delegations. Finally it was agreed that under the direction of the archaeologist Dean Meatte and the representatives of the Indians, Richard Young and Hank Gobin, an exploration should take place. Finds of tools and possibly relics from a 2000 year old village confirmed their assumptions. When the resort was set up in the 1930s, around two dozen graves had been found. In 2006 a court ruled that construction could continue, and in 2008 the Tulalip's application to include the village in the National Register of Historic Places was provisionally rejected due to insufficient documentation.
In addition to the two state parks designated by Washington State, there are also county parks such as Utsalady Bay and Cavalero Beach.
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ US Census Bureau
- ↑ Tulalip Tribes, HistoryLink.org Essay 8852
- ↑ Spithill, Alexander (1824-1920)
- ↑ Stanwood and Camano Island residents build a park in one day on July 27, 1949. A map can be found here (PDF, 167 kB), archive.org, April 1, 2013.
- ↑ Cama Beach State Park on Camano Island officially opens on June 21, 2008