Images of America- Orcas Island Gene Hamilton And having studied Herreshoff’s plans

And having studied Herreshoff’s plans and correspondence—which are preserved at Mystic Seaport—and interviewed many who knew him

Diagrams are included to show locations and directions as well as marina layouts

Turk introduces strong archeological and anthropological evidence that his expedition was not the first

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Images of America- Orcas Island Gene Hamilton And having studied Herreshoff’s plansOrcas Island, the largest of the 172 islands in San Juan County, lies in the Salish Sea north of Puget Sound. Known as the "Gem of the San Juans" for her shimmering emerald hills bounded by 125 miles of rocky, tree lined shore, Orcas was home to countless generations of Native Americans before the arrival of its first white settlers, formerly Hudson's Bay men who had hunted on the island, in the late 1850s. An international boundary dispute, popularly