Jim Crook with his carder machine
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Jim Crook was renowned in his lifetime and afterwards. His admirers created the Jim Crook Society, a group that has restored and preserved many of Crook's machines and inventions, including the carder machine pictured here.
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Crook House – A Home With A View To The Past
In 1872, the British Royal Marines abandoned their campsite, known as English Camp, along the eastern side of Garrison Bay on San Juan Island in Washington Territory. Word of the prime real estate spread to the pioneer couple William and Mary Crook…