Camp at Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington, ca 1908

ID: 63 ~ Source: Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository ~ Creator: Albert Henry Barnes, American photographer ~ Date: 1908

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Camp at Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington, ca 1908 — public domain

early photo of what could have been the beach that Joe Friday was standing on when the HMS Plumper entered the bay 1859.

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Who is the Namesake of Friday Harbor? – What is the historical memory of Peter Friday and Joe Friday

By Jacob Adamson

In 1859 the British survey ship HMS Plumper was scouting the San Juan Islands during the joint occupation of the Islands by the British and the United States. Oarsmen from the HMS Plumper took a skiff into what they would later call "Friday…