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The Reserve at Ebey's Landing provides a vivid historical record of Pacific Northwest history, including the first exploration of Puget Sound by Captain George Vancouver in 1792; early settlement by Colonel Isaac Ebey, who filed a claim under the Donation Land Claim Act in 1850; [3] growth and settlement resulting from the Oregon Trail and the Westward migration; the Donation Land Laws (1850 ...
The rich farmland claimed by Isaac and his father Jacob is still called Ebey's Prairie and is farmed to this day. Ebey's Landing, while no longer a docking port, is named for the beachfront located just below the still-standing Ferry House built in 1860. The Landing is now a National Historical Reserve and was the first NHR in the United States.
Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve — a historical reserve and park on Whidbey Island, in Island County and the Puget Sound region of Washington state. The first U.S. National Historical Reserve, it is on the National Register of Historic Places in Island County, and is managed by the National Park Service.
It is a Washington state park and a historic district within the U.S. Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve. Admiralty Inlet was considered so strategic to the defense of Puget Sound in the 1890s that three forts—Fort Casey on Whidbey Island, Fort Flagler on Marrowstone Island , and Fort Worden at Port Townsend—were built with the ...
Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve: November 10, 1978: Whidbey Island: Island County, Washington: The only National Historic Reserve, this park consists of a mixture of public and private lands, including the Central Whidbey Island Historic District, which is listed on the National Register. 2: Fort Vancouver National Historic Site ...
Fort Ebey State Park is a public recreation area occupying the site of former Fort Ebey on the west side of Whidbey Island, five miles (8.0 km) west of Coupeville in Island County, Washington, United States. The state park covers 651 acres (263 ha) overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca and lies within the Ebey's Landing National Historical ...
The house stayed in the Ebey family for 57 years, until Isaac Ebey's grandson sold the old Inn in 1917. The old Inn is currently owned by the National Park Service. The Ferry House became part of the 17,500-acre (71 km 2 ) Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve created in 1978 to protect the rural working landscape and community on Central ...
Coupeville is a historic district within the federal Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve. The reserve was established by Congress in 1978 as the first and only National Historical Reserve in the nation. [9]