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.
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Forty-five years ago my wife and I created a homestead in a wild corner of Whidbey Island, more akin to what others have created in the wilds of Alaska or Canada. We bought an inexpensive tract of forest with a small creek and wetland, a half mile from the nearest road, power line or neighbor. It was a place where we were less subject to the rules laid down by the county, although we did apply for the owner builder home permit available back then.