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Home of the Tarheel Stomp Mortimer Cook slept here & named the town Bug |
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Click on the thumbnail photo above to see a panorama of the LaConner waterfront in 1902 from Sebring's Skagit County Illustrated magazine. |
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This is the earliest known photograph of the LaConner waterfront, from 1873, scanned from the book, Chechacos All, which is still for sale at the LaConner Museum. The original caption read: "LaConner in 1873 when the town was in its infancy — Note the two-masted schooner at the dock. Sailing vessels found the narrow channel difficult to navigate, so most ships which came were sternwheelers. Photo courtesy Mr. And Mrs. Francis Tillinghast, LaConner." |
Ed. note: This biography is courtesy of this website, a transcription of the vital resource, History Of The Pacific Northwest, Oregon and Washington, by Elwood Evans, 1889. Janine Bork and Marjorie Rundall Campbell have painstakingly transcribed almost all of the two volumes of this 1889 book, for which all we researchers should be eternally grateful. They share the information in hopes that family researchers and students will learn from it. Please thank them personally: Bork and Campbell. Ms. Bork has authorized us since 2000 to use excerpts for educational purposes; please be very careful how you share this information and please request permission to re-publish it.
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