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Robert Jay Mathews (January 16, 1953 – December 8, 1984) was an American neo-Nazi activist and the leader of The Order, an American white supremacist militant group. [1] [2] He was burned alive during a shootout with approximately 75 federal law enforcement agents who surrounded his house on Whidbey Island, near Freeland, Washington.
Colonel Isaac Neff Ebey (January 22, 1818 – August 11, 1857) was the first permanent white resident of Whidbey Island, Washington. Ebey was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1818. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During his childhood Ebey's father, Jacob, moved the family to Adair County, Missouri , where as a young man Ebey was trained in the law.
Tucker, Dave (July 2010), "Whidbey Island glacial deposits", Northwest Geology Field Trips "Whidbey Island: Glacial erratics", Western Geo Hikes, January 29, 2008, archived from the original on 2015-06-10; Whidbey Island Glaciation (ESS 210) (PDF) (Field trip handbook), University of Washington Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Whidbey Island (historical spellings Whidby, Whitbey, [5] or Whitby) is the largest of the islands composing Island County, Washington, in the United States, and the largest island in Washington state. Whidbey is about 30 miles (48 km) north of Seattle, and lies between the Olympic Peninsula and the I-5 corridor of western
Captain Thomas Coupe (c. 1818 – December 27, 1875) was a ship's captain and early settler of Whidbey Island. Thomas Coupe was born in New Brunswick, Canada [1] and began going to sea at the age of 12. Coupe sailed the North American Atlantic Coast until the early 1850s.
Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Washington is home to approximately 1,500, [3] and 16 of those are found partially or wholly in Island County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 29, 2024.
Practice to Deceive is a 2013 true crime nonfiction book by the American author Ann Rule that details the murder of Russel Douglas, found shot between the eyes in his car on Whidbey Island, north of Seattle, Washington, the day after Christmas 2003. [1] The book was released in October 2013 by Simon & Schuster's Gallery Books imprint.
Lake Hancock is a 200-acre (81 ha) coastal lagoon (and estuary) and former lake on Whidbey Island in the U.S. state of Washington. The elevation reported by United States Geological Survey is 3 feet (0.91 m). [1] According to some conservationists, it is "the most well preserved estuary on the island". [2]