Painting Recreating the Belle Vue Sheep Farm

ID: 658 ~ Source: National Park Service. "Belle Vue Sheep Farm." San Juan Island. Last modified September 15, 2015. https://www.nps.gov/sajh/learn/historyculture/belle-vue-sheep-farm.htm. ~ Creator: Richard Schlecht

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Painting Recreating the Belle Vue Sheep Farm

A painting depicting the "Home Prairie" of the Belle Vue Sheep Farm at the height of the Pig War in 1859.

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Belle Vue Sheep Farm – The Sheep Farm Where the Pig War Began

By Zion Flores

Before there was American or English camp, there was the Belle Vue Sheep Farm. What was once a central point of the Pig War is now no more than a vast, open field with a white flagpole. The farm was originally established by Chief Factor of the…