In the 1860s, Utsaladdy was a sizable city, manufacturing and shipping lumber; shipbuilders here produced many boats for Puget Sound shipping, including the J. B. Libby, a side-wheeler, and the Cascades, a large stern-wheeler.  Today Utsaladdy is a small seaside community of mostly residential homes. The name is a distortion of an Native American word which means "place of the berries." The Chinook Jargon word Ollalie first referred to salmon...

The schoolhouse is an intact example of an early one-room school house, directly linked to the early education system of Washington State. The school was built in 1905 to serve the thriving community of Camano City, which flourished in the early 1900’s.

An unusually extensive and intact example of an early 20th century auto-era resort, and a state park. Owned and operated continuously by one family from 1934 through 1989, the resort property has undergone very little physical change over the years. The property illustrates the early age of recreational auto travel in the state, as well as the emergence of middle-class destination vacationing.

A small community on the southwest shore of Camano Island, on Saratoga Passage, north of Langley. The place was named by J. A. Woodard for Nils Anderson's daughter, Mabel, on May 15, 1912. He combined the first syllables of her first and last names, and added an a for euphony.

The dairy consists of two connected barns, a hay and a dairy barn, both built in 1914 and sited adjacent to one another for functional reasons. The connecting enclosed breezeway was added in 1938 and marks a shift in feeding practices and functional needs. The barns are distinctive of early 20th century craftsmanship and are among the largest and most visible barns on Camano Island. The barns convey the early...