Title: A Home on the South Fork
Subtitle: An Early History of Acme - A Northwest Washington Community
Description: Coast Salish people were the only occupants of the Northwest corner of Washington State for millennia. They retained their unique reign over the land until the mid-1850s when European Americans arrived on the shores of Bellingham Bay. Those early businessmen, adventurers, and settlers seeking a new beginning would forever change the Northwest landscape. Washington Territory had not yet become a state and the land was not surveyed by the federal government when the first outsiders arrived. Once the small towns lining Bellingham Bay began to grow, a handful of settlers traveled inland to stake land claims. The pioneers who made their way up the South Fork of the Nooksack River faced immense hardship and extreme isolation as they established homesteads and put down roots in the wilderness of Whatcom County. This is the story of those settlers and the small town they built in the South Fork valley of Whatcom County, including early contact with the Nooksack Indians. Their stories are told through records, interviews, letters, and a wealth of early images that document their lives and progress as they transformed their corner of Northwest Washington wilderness into a community called Acme.
Subjects: Whatcom County (Wash.)., History, Washington (State)
Places: Acme (Wash.)