❖ WELCOME ❖

This promotional booklet contains photographic images by
James A. McCormick, working seasonally from Friday Harbor.
He was listed as the official State photographer for the 1909
Exposition in Seattle, WA. Publisher:
the Board of County Commissioners; 
Shull, Cayou, and Buchanan.

This first log entry welcomes all Saltwater People Historical Society members and friends interested in studying, collecting, sharing, and preserving the maritime history of the San Juan Islands and the northern Puget Sound area. Informal blogs will follow with stories of salty mariners, their private vessels, the early Mosquito Fleet, the shipwrecks, the smuggling, and some of the events that have shaped the lifestyle of almost everyone living in the beautiful islands of San Juan County, Washington, the most westerly state in the continental US.