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The City of Anacortes is located in Skagit County on the northern end of Fidalgo Island in Puget Sound. It is the only incorporated community on Fidalgo, which is separated from the mainland by the Sw...
Orcas Island lies in the San Juan archipelago of the Salish Sea in Northwest Washington. Mountainous and heavily forested, the island is nearly divided by the long inlet of East Sound, with two smalle...
In early February, 1890, Amos Bowman (1839-1894) of Anacortes builds the Skagit County town's first large sawmill. Lumber will be a major industry in the town for more than sixty years. By 1911, thirt...
On May 19, 1891, Anacortes, located on the northern end of Fidalgo Island in Skagit County, incorporates. The new town occupies a deep draft harbor adjacent to extensive forest lands. Growing from a ...
On October 14, 1891, the schooner Lizzie Colby lands the first load of Bering Sea cod at the Anacortes wharf of J. W. Matheson's newly constructed cod fish curing plant. This ushers in a new industry ...
On June 2, 1953, the Anacortes Bulletin announces that Shell Oil chooses to locate an oil refinery in Anacortes. A special edition of the paper covers the whole front page with the headline "SHELL PIC...