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Entrance to 6-inch gun bunker at Fort Ebey. 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 ...
Fort Columbia: Pacific: 593 240 Early 20th-century coastal artillery and historic wood-frame fort buildings Fort Ebey: Island: 645 261 Camping, paragliding, and trails on the Strait of Juan de Fuca: Federation Forest: King: 619 251 Hiking amid old-growth Douglas firs on the White River: Fields Spring: Asotin: 792 321 Trails in the Blue ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) ... Fort Cascades; Fort Casey; Fort Ebey State Park; Fort Columbia State ...
Activated: Year in which the first coastal fort on the site entered service, usually when completed or first garrisoned. Many forts were garrisoned but never completed. Deactivated as coastal fort: Year the fort was disarmed (periods of caretaker status are not noted). Deactivated as military post: Year the fort site was abandoned by the Armed ...
Point Partridge (Lushootseed: x̌ʷuk̓q̓ʷqs) [1] is the most westerly point of Whidbey Island, the largest island in Puget Sound.The point lies north of the Fort Ebey military reservation and south of West Beach.
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 ...
Google Maps. A 34-year-old man is dead and another driver hurt in an early head-on crash on Highway 24, south of the Vernita Bridge on the Hanford nuclear site. ... Jeffrey Ebey, of Sumas, Wash ...
The area around Isaac Ebey's original homestead is today a living memorial to his pioneer legacy. Fort Ebey (established in 1942) on the west side of the central part of the island (just northwest of Coupeville) is named in his honor. The rich farmland claimed by Isaac and his father Jacob is still called Ebey's Prairie and is farmed to this day.