Blacksmith Shop Ruins

ID: 537 ~ Source: Blacksmith Shop, English Camp, San Juan Island, Washington. Between 1845 and 1979. Photograph. Washingotn Localities Subject Files, PH Coll 1295, Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, WA. https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/wastate/id/738/rec/2. Accessed December 6, 2020.

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The forge hearth peeks from behind the masonry wall at the ruin of the blacksmith shop. Next door, the photographer noted what may have been the library.

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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…