We are searching for an Icelandic-Lofoten fishing boat design of the late 1880s, as pictured, that might look like those that sailed from Stanwood in 1880s, then “old Stanwood” a Norse fishing village. East Stanwood next to the new railroad grade was a Swedish village.
*Blaine to the north was Icelandic. Thanks to them, the Farm now has a sloop replica of the North West America, the 1st ship built in the NW. The photo below is of the Eggum harbor, Norway, visited by this writer in the ‘90s to see the house where his grandmother was born. Heard from her neighbors, “we always wondered what happened to little Yena.” Imagine being in North Sea with waves higher than any barn. The populace needed protein and whether to fish or not was not a decision, although when to fish was the secret to survival (a boat’s width must be greater than a wave’s height or disaster beckons). *In the State of Washington, Blaine, Stanwood, and Ballard contains Icelandic populace; Spanish Fork, Utah was the first permanent Icelandic settlement in the United States, and Washington Island, Wisconsin, the second. Icelanders were the first Europeans to reach North America. Leif Erikson arrived in North America via Norse settlements in Greenland around the year 1000. Norse settlers from Greenland founded settlements in what is now Newfoundland, Canada. These are accepted speculations, but one is for certain: fishing for salmon in Puget Sound in 1880, compared to the North Sea (above the Artic Circle), would have indeed made our area appear to be “Heaven on Earth.”
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The Northwest city that served as a beacon for immigrants from Iceland was/is:
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