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Willapa Bay Interpretive Center

Oyster harvesting has been a mainstay of the Willapa Bay economy since the 1850s, and the Willapa Bay Oyster House Interpretive Center gives you the whole story. You’ll learn about the history of the oyster industry in a replica of an oyster station house. The center features quotes from numerous oyster family pioneers and their [...]

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White River Valley Museum

Located in Auburn’s Les Gove Park, the White River Valley Museum tells the story of South King County from the native people, through the settlers, and into the 21st century. The museum features a collection of maritime artifacts from the Muckleshoot Indian tribe, including canoes and traditional fishing gear. The museum collections also focus on [...]

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Anacortes History Museum

The Anacortes History Museum, founded in 1958, explores the history of Fidalgo and Guemes Islands in northern Puget Sound through exhibitions, research and public programs. The museum maintains two sites, the National Historic Landmark Sternwheel Snagboat W.T. Preston, and an exhibition gallery and research library.

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Turn Point Lighthouse and Museum

Ships following Haro Strait on their way to the Strait of Juan de Fuca make a sharp turn at Turn Point in Stuart Island. The government established a lighthouse at the point in 1893, beginning as a lantern and a Daboll fog signal. A small keeper’s house was built just uphill from the lantern tower. [...]

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Wooden Boat Foundation

The mission of the Wooden Boat Foundation is to celebrate, support, promote, and preserve maritime heritage, skills, and culture through education and participation in the joy of wooden boats. Home of the first and still largest Wooden Boat Festival in North America, held the weekend after Labor Day every year, the Wooden Boat Foundation is [...]

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Suquamish Museum/Old Man House Park

The native peoples of the Puget Sound region explored and exploited the area’s maritime resources for 15,000 years before the arrival of Anglo-European settlers. And they developed sophisticated, traditional methods for carving canoes and harvesting fish. The Suquamish Museum in Kitsap County documents native history with an extensive collection of native artifacts related to canoe [...]

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Bush Point Lighthouse

The Bush Point Lighthouse was built in 1933 to guide mariners through the middle reaches of Admiralty Inlet into Puget Sound. The light sits atop a 20-foot pyramidal concrete tower painted white with blue trim. No other structures are associated with the tower. The lighthouse is located approximately three miles west of Freeland, on Whidbey [...]

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Willapa Seaport Museum

Like a veteran sailor’s bulging sea chest, the Willapa Seaport Museum captures the breadth and depth of the seafaring with exhibits covering military and commercial life. The museum puts emphasis on the communities of Raymond, South Bend, and other towns around Willapa Bay in the southwest corner of Washington State. The military exhibits focus on [...]

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Semiahmoo Park Maritime Museum

Semiahmoo Park Maritime Museum in Blaine, Washington features a restored Bristol Bay sailboat and exhibits that illustrates the history of Semiahmoo’s fish cannery days dating back to 1894. The museum, owned by the Whatcom County parks department and operated by the not-for-profit Drayton Harbor Maritime, is devoted to featuring the history of the Alaska Packers [...]

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Museum at the Carnegie

The Museum at the Carnegie in Port Angeles offers a glimpse of life from Clallam County’s past. Upstairs, Strong People: Faces of Clallam County introduces you to people who helped build our community. You will learn about early settlers in Charting the Last Frontier; hear the three distinct tribal languages in Our Ancestral Heritage; explore [...]

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