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Friday Harbor is a town in San Juan County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,613 at the 2020 census. Located on San Juan Island, Friday Harbor is the major commercial center of the San Juan Islands archipelago and is the county seat of San Juan County. [4]
San Juan County is a county in the Salish Sea in the far northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census , its population was 17,788. [ 1 ] The county seat and only incorporated town is Friday Harbor , [ 2 ] on San Juan Island .
The Journal was bought in 1907 by its editor, Virgil Frits (1882-1971), who owned, edited and published it until 1958 (Wall died in Friday Harbor on Aug. 16, 1911 at the age of 67 [6]). Frits was also a longtime town clerk of Friday Harbor. [7] The Journal's competitor, the San Juan Islander, folded in 1914. [8]
San Juan Island is the second-largest and most populous of the San Juan Islands in northwestern Washington, United States.It has a land area of 142.59 km 2 (55.053 sq mi) and a population of 8,632 [2] as of the 2020 census.
Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Washington is home to approximately 1,500, [3] and 19 of those are found in San Juan County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 31, 2025.
The park property also includes the original site of San Juan village on the north shore of the peninsula, which was abandoned after the dispute ended and was entirely burned in 1890. The camp site includes three surviving buildings from the American military occupation: two officers' quarters, and the house and working quarters of the camp ...
San Juan Islands (in white) and surrounding region Location of the San Juan Islands. The San Juan Islands is an archipelago in the Pacific Northwest of the United States between the U.S. state of Washington and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The San Juan Islands are part of Washington state, and form the core of San Juan County.
Lime Kiln Point State Park is a 42-acre Washington state park on the western shore of San Juan Island in the San Juan archipelago.The park is considered one of the best places in the world to view wild orcas from a land-based facility. [2]