General George Pickett is perhaps best known for his time in the Confederate Army, but his military career did not begin at Gettysburg. Assigned to command Company D on San Juan Island, Captain Pickett arrived at the San Juan Islands in July 1859 and…

Friday Harbor was incorporated as a city in 1909, but the city’s story starts much earlier. In 1845, the first Europeans arrived, the Hudson’s Bay Company, and they began to occupy the island after claiming it for England. The Hudson’s Bay Company…