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Fort Ebey State Park is a public recreation area occupying the site of former Fort Ebey on the west side of Whidbey Island, five miles (8.0 km) west of Coupeville in Island County, Washington, United States. The state park covers 651 acres (263 ha) overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca and lies within the Ebey's Landing National Historical ...
The Reserve at Ebey's Landing provides a vivid historical record of Pacific Northwest history, including the first exploration of Puget Sound by Captain George Vancouver in 1792; early settlement by Colonel Isaac Ebey, who filed a claim under the Donation Land Claim Act in 1850; [3] growth and settlement resulting from the Oregon Trail and the Westward migration; the Donation Land Laws (1850 ...
Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve Ferry House (Ebey's Landing) Fort Ebey State Park in Island County, Washington is a camping park in the Washington State Park System
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The house stayed in the Ebey family for 57 years, until Isaac Ebey's grandson sold the old Inn in 1917. The old Inn is currently owned by the National Park Service. The Ferry House became part of the 17,500-acre (71 km 2 ) Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve created in 1978 to protect the rural working landscape and community on Central ...
It is a Washington state park and a historic district within the U.S. Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve. Admiralty Inlet was considered so strategic to the defense of Puget Sound in the 1890s that three forts—Fort Casey on Whidbey Island, Fort Flagler on Marrowstone Island , and Fort Worden at Port Townsend—were built with the ...
Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve — a historical reserve and park on Whidbey Island, in Island County and the Puget Sound region of Washington state. The first U.S. National Historical Reserve, it is on the National Register of Historic Places in Island County, and is managed by the National Park Service.
Mimi Sheridan, "Brief history of central Whidbey Island–natural history" (PDF), Ebey's Landing National Historic Reserve: Self-guided walking tour of historic Coupeville (brochure), U.S. National Park Service, archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-08-12