Camano Island

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Camano Iceland is an island in Possession Sound, which forms part of the Puget Sound in the Northwest of the U.S. state of Washington. The island is located in Iceland County between the mainland and Whidbey Iceland, where is with Coupeville the main town of the county, and from which it is separated by the Saratoga Passage. Camano Between Iceland and the Snohomish County on the mainland is the Davis Slough. A bridge connects the island to the northeast with the mainland.

In 2000 Camano Iceland had 13,358 inhabitants. The area of ​​the island is 102.99 km ². The largest lake is Lake Kristoferson.

History

In pre-European times lived on the island members of the Kikalos and Snohomish. They called the island Kal- lut -chin, " country, jumping in a bay ."

The present name of the island dates back to Jacinto Caamano, the one of the last Spanish expeditions to British Columbia and Alaska led 1792. 1825 broke off a part of the southern tip of Camano Iceland and crashed into the lake. This Great Slide caused a tsunami that has the population located on the southern Iceland killed within sight of Seattle. The Tulalip not populated the island again, but then they sought only to clamming up.

Charles Wilkes, the 1838-1842 charted the region, the island MacDonough Iceland named in honor of Thomas MacDonough and his victory in the Battle of Lake Champlain during the war from 1812 to 1814 between Great Britain and the United States. Henry Kellett replaced this name in 1847 as part of the British mapping efforts by Camano. Even the Governor of the Territory Washington, Isaac Stevens, named the island Perry Iceland.

The Iceland County was officially established on 6 January 1853. It was separated from the Thurston County and originally encompassed the present counties of Snohomish, Skagit, Whatcom and San Juan. Today, the County includes, in addition Whidbey and Camano Iceland only six uninhabited islands, namely Smith Iceland in the west, Deception Pass and Iceland in Deception Pass, and Ben Ure, Strawberry and Baby Iceland in the Saratoga Passage.

The first white settlers arrived in 1855, both the Snohomish and their relatives had to leave the island and were moved to the Tulalip Reservation. The new inhabitants lived on the timber until they were replaced by peasant settlers. The woodcutter named the island Iceland Crow, Crow Island.

One of the first settlers was the Scot Alexander Spithill (1824-1920), who lived first in Utsalady. He arrived in October 1856, on the island, founded together with five Indians a postal company, and worked in the area around the later Marysville for Grennan & Craney at the north end of the island. In 1857 he married his second wife, the Indian Hessie Turner in Utsalady, with whom he had four children. In his third marriage, also with an Indian woman, he married Anastasia Newman, with whom he had nine children. He put on Allen Slough to the first known lumber camp. End of the 60 years he worked in the Tulalip Reservation, but returned in 1890 back to Marysville, which received city rights in 1891. As a Republican, he was sitting in the city parliament.

State Parks

20 km southwest of Stanwood Camano was 1949, the Iceland State Park, where 500 workers from the island and from Stanwood were in use. During the last ice age, a 1.5 km thick ice sheet covered the island. The glacier movements gave the region its current profile.

2008, the Cama Beach State Park was established in the southwest of the island where existed since the 30s tourist facilities that have been placed under protection and are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There is also a trail that unlocks the natural attractions, but also the sites of Tulalip. In the 1880s until about 1900 here was a lumber camp. The modest resort dates 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, the area does not sell to private investors, but leave for only 60 % of the market price to the state. 2001, the restoration work had progressed so far that the resort received protection status. 2002 construction work was a necropolis was found that held the Tulalip for a place of their ancestors. They offered the government, the area to buy, but did not accept this from. The Swinomish, Samish and Upper Skagit sent delegates. Finally, it was agreed that under the leadership of Dean Meatte archaeologists and representatives of the Indians, Richard Young and Hank Gobin, there should be a development. Tool finds and possibly relics of a 2000 year old village confirmed their suspicions. Even with establishment of the resorts in the 30s we had about two dozen graves have been found. 2006 a court ruled that the construction work could be continued, 2008, the request of the Tulalip to take the village on the National Register of Historic Places, was the absence of adequate documentation provisionally rejected.

Apart from the two designated by the State Washington State Parks County Parks are still as Utsalady Bay or Cavalero Beach.