The Alexander blockhouse, Coupeville, built 1855-56

1930s (the blockhouse, 1855-56)Coupeville, Whidbey Island, Washington
The Alexander blockhouse, Coupeville, built 1855-56

About it

One of the log blockhouses the settlers of Penn Cove built in the war of 1855-56, when families slept inside their stockades for months, photographed for the Historic American Buildings Survey in the 1930s.

Credit
Historic American Buildings Survey, WA-39-W-8, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs (item wa0017); public domain
File
habs-alexander-blockhouse.jpg, 1024 × 739
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