Garrison Bay from Behind the Blacksmith Wall

ID: 536 ~ Source: Garrison Bay from Behind the Blacksmith Stone Wall, below Crook House, British Camp, San Juan Island, approximately 1910s. Ca. 1915. Photograph. San Juan County Album, PH coll 48, Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, WA. https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/wastate/id/2624/rec/2. Accessed December 6, 2020.

This file appears in: English Camp Blacksmith’s Shop

Garrison Bay from Behind the Blacksmith Wall

The stone wall of English Camp's smithy stands resolute in the foreground with Garrison Bay framed by trees. The forge bed itself is hidden behind the wall, the only two remnants of the blacksmith's shop.

This file appears in: English Camp Blacksmith’s Shop

English Camp Blacksmith’s Shop – The Royal Marines’ Tool for Self-Sufficiency

By Neil Christenson

The Royal Marines stationed on San Juan Island were effectively at the farthest end of the British Empire—which to them meant the end of civilization itself. Their supply line stretched for 4,750 miles across two oceans, and it took about six weeks…