Fort Ebey State Park is a public recreation area occupying the site of former Fort Ebey on the west side of Whidbey Island, five miles (8.0 km) west of Coupeville in Island County, Washington, United States. The state park covers 651 acres (263 ha) overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca and lies within the Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve.
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Point Partridge is the most westerly point of Whidbey Island, the largest island in Puget Sound. The point lies north of the Fort Ebey military reservation and south of West Beach. The primary importance of Point Partridge is as the northern and eastern reference point for the dividing line between Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The other reference is Point Wilson.
In Lushootseed, the name of the point is x̌ʷuk̓q̓ʷqs, meaning "muddy point." The origin of the English name is not known for certain. According to G.H. Anderson, the point was named by George Vancouver in 1792, to honor the family of Vancouver's sister-in-law, Martha Partridge, the daughter of Henry Partridge. The Spanish explorer Manuel Quimper had named the point two years before Vancouver, calling it "Menendez".
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Coveland is an unincorporated community on Whidbey island in Island County, in the U.S. state of Washington.
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The Captain Whidbey Inn is a lodging and hospitality establishment built in 1907 located on Whidbey Island at the west end of Penn Cove just outside Coupeville, Washington. It is part of the National Register of Historic Places listed Central Whidbey Island Historic District.
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San de Fuca is an unincorporated community and geographical location on Whidbey Island in Island County, Washington, United States. Formerly a small town in the 19th century, it lies on the north side of Penn Cove across from Coupeville.
San de Fuca was envisioned as the terminus of a shipping channel across Whidbey Island, which would connect to Anacortes by rail. The site was said in 1890 to have "no possible rival as the most desirable and advantageous point for a general railroad terminus and point of interchange for land and water traffic." The planned canal was ultimately cancelled due to the Panic of 1893. Nonetheless, San de Fuca remained a stop on steamer lines carrying passengers to and from Seattle for several decades. The San de Fuca hotel remained standing until at least 1970, and the historic San de Fuca pier was still standing as of 2014.
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Admiralty Inlet Natural Area Preserve in Island County, Washington is part of the Washington Natural Areas Program. It lies along Admiralty Inlet within Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve on land owned by the Whidbey Camano Land Trust with a conservation easement owned by the Washington Department of Natural Resources. Admiralty Inlet NAP is home to one of only 11 remaining populations of golden paintbrush, a flowering plant listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The preserve's 46 acres includes old-growth forest, a rare remnant prairie, and shoreline.
The Whidbey Camano Land Trust purchased the site from Seattle Pacific University for $3.3 million in June 2013.
It is managed by the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission.