"San De Fuca," Revisiting Washington (Washington Trust for Historic Preservation)

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"San De Fuca," Revisiting Washington (Washington Trust for Historic Preservation)
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read 13 Oct 2026
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https://revisitwa.org/waypoint/san-de-fuca/
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A waypoint page with no sources named: "The farm of R. B. Holbrook, who settled here early in the 1850s, was purchased for a townsite, and San De Fuca ... boomed in the nineties as the east end of a proposed canal to bisect the island." "The town was named by a real estate syndicate composed of H. C. Power, L. H. Griffiths, and J. W. Gillespie in 1889," and promoted as the east entrance of a cross-island canal "which was never dug."

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  2. title: "\"San De Fuca,\" Revisiting Washington (Washington Trust for Historic Preservation)"
  3. type: other
  4. date: read 13 Oct 2026
  5. url: "https://revisitwa.org/waypoint/san-de-fuca/"
  6. seen: transcript
  7. access: public
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  10. A waypoint page with no sources named: "The farm of R. B. Holbrook, who settled here early in the
  11. 1850s, was purchased for a townsite, and San De Fuca ... boomed in the nineties as the east end of a
  12. proposed canal to bisect the island." "The town was named by a real estate syndicate composed of H. C.
  13. Power, L. H. Griffiths, and J. W. Gillespie in 1889," and promoted as the east entrance of a
  14. cross-island canal "which was never dug."
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