Orcas Island - Book

Orcas Island is the largest of the 172 islands in San Juan County, set in the Salish Sea north of Puget Sound and often called the Gem of the San Juans for its green hills and about 125 miles of rocky, tree-lined shore. Native Americans lived there for countless generations before the first white settlers, former Hudson's Bay men, arrived in the late 1850s, and the island's early pioneer story is tied up with the international boundary dispute popularly known as the Pig War.

This Images of America book from Arcadia Publishing, compiled by the Orcas Island Historical Society & Museum, traces the island's history through vintage photographs.