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Whidbey Island and the Settlement of the Pacific Northwest
One of Whidbey Island's early settlers in the 1850's, Samuel Maylor, inscribed in a hand-written family album, "To my sons: Remember'memories, if once lost, are gone forever." So it is. Let no history be "gone forever"!
Visitors and residents alike tend to think of "original" Coupeville, Langley and Oak Harbor as "quaint" Victorian villages that evidence the early beginnings of Whidbey's European history. Not so, though Whidbey's earliest white settlers left few indications of their passing on our landscape - unless you know where to look. We tend to think of Coupeville, founded by two dozen New England sea captains, as representing our European beginnings. Coupeville is, in fact, Washington's second oldest town, after Ft. Walla Walla, the terminus of the Oregon Trail. But, before there was a 'Washington', before Thomas Coupe even arrived to Whidbey Island to lend his name to Coupeville, there was Coveland.
