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Robert Jay Mathews (January 16, 1953 – December 8, 1984) was an American neo-Nazi terrorist 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.
The paper started as the Whidby Record and later changed its name in the 1940s to The Whidbey Record when the proper spelling of the island's namesake, Joseph Whidbey, was discovered to have an "e" in it. [2] The paper adopted its present name in 1981. [3] The Examiner won awards from the Suburban Newspapers of America in 2004, [4] 2005, [5 ...
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
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.
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
Whidbey News-Times is a twice-weekly (Wednesday and Saturday) newspaper published in Oak Harbor, Washington, United States covering general news on Whidbey Island. It is owned by Sound Publishing Inc., a subsidiary of Black Press. Its sister paper is the South Whidbey Record. Another sister paper, the Whidbey Examiner, was shuttered in 2017. [2]
It contains two large islands, Whidbey and Camano, and seven smaller islands (Baby, Ben Ure, Deception, Kalamut, Minor, Smith, and Strawberry). Island County was created out of Thurston County on December 22, 1852, by the legislature of Oregon Territory, [4] [5] and is the eighth-oldest county in Washington.