Millard Hutchinson

ID: 712 ~ Source: Lopez Island Historical Society

This file appears in: 2. Hutch’s Trading Post: the First Store on Lopez

Millard was born on Lopez Island in 1867 to Hiram Hutchinson, and an Indigenous woman called Mary. He later became a Captain and piloted the Steamboat Lydia Thompson.

This file appears in: 2. Hutch’s Trading Post: the First Store on Lopez

2. Hutch’s Trading Post: the First Store on Lopez – Public Shore Access on Weeks Point Way

By Breton Carter

Just a few steps from here, Hiram Hutchinson ran the first grocery store (or trading post) on Lopez Island. The store offered staple goods such as flour, sugar, coffee, gunpowder and tobacco. “Hi” or “Hutch,” as he was called, came to Lopez in the…