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By Susan Lehne Ferguson

the tale of Lopez Island is a narrative of neighborhood. expert, courageous, beneficiant humans like Sampson Chadwick, mom Brown, Captain Barlow, and Amelia Davis carved a lively, nurturing group out of seashore barren region. Homesteaders cleared forests, outfitted farms, grew nutrition, and raised huge households, surviving then thriving jointly. The hamlets of Port Stanley, Richardson, and Lopez emerged, growing hubs with shops, put up places of work, and colleges in addition to thriving fishing, canning, and transport industries. The group fostered schooling, track, writing, dances, chivarees, baseball, quilting, a birthday membership, and grand Fourth of July celebrations. residing self-reliant lives whereas assisting pals, friends, and rookies, Lopezians created a different neighborhood personality that abides today.

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