The Island County Historical Museum in Coupeville has hundreds of items on display, everything from the bones of a woolly mammoth that roamed Whidbey 12,000 years ago before the Ice Age glaciers appeared to tons of things from the white settlers who came in the mid-19th century. Nine years ago, it added a splendid exhibit called Native Peoples/Native Places about the indigenous people who were here first, for thousands of years. It includes three rare dug-out canoes, woven baskets and a variety of stone and wood tools.
The Island County Historical Museum in Coupeville has hundreds of items on display, everything from the bones of a woolly mammoth that roamed Whidbey 12,000 years ago before the Ice Age glaciers appeared to tons of things from the white settlers who came in the mid-19th century. Nine years ago, it added a splendid exhibit called Native Peoples/Native Places about the indigenous people who were here first, for thousands of years. It includes three rare dug-out canoes, woven baskets and a variety of stone and wood tools.