Images of America-Roche Harbor Bruce Bauer African and American cultures

African and American cultures

Scale: various

landfalls and features on the inside passage between Puget Sound and Southeast Alaska

Chart Image Size: 25" x 39"

beavers and mountain men

Images of America-Roche Harbor Bruce Bauer African and American culturesRoche Harbor's deep, protected waters and abundant resources inspired poets, one of whom wrote in 1903, "A rock bound coast hems in a wealth of verdant pastures sweet; Deep forests cover vale and hill where fresh and salt waters meet." For millennia, this was the home of the Lummi and Songhees people. The British established a military camp near here in 1860 to maintain their claim to the San Juan Islands. Limestone was quarried here for 90 years,