Coupeville
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A glimpse at 1884 ...
“ Coupeville is one of the pleasantest towns on Puget Sound, situated on Penn’s Cove, and is the county seat of Island County. This town is comprised of two stores of general merchandise, one drug store, three hotels, two saloons, one blacksmith and wagon shop, courthouse, post office, schoolhouse and about twenty-five dwelling houses, a church of the Methodist denomination, and efforts are being made to organize an Episcopal church.
There is daily communication with all points on the Sound, and the town is backed by the very best of farming country ...
While we don’t put on any airs as some of the would-be towns on the Sound, we can look back upon the past year with great complacency; while Seattle and other towns are heralding the marvelous growth of their places, I venture the assertion that there is not a town on the Sound that has improved as rapidly or so permanently as Coupeville has during this past year.
Real estate has enhanced in value more in the past year than in the previous ten years, and what is still better, our values are not fictitious, but real, and will steadily increase until attention will be called to our beautiful town and island, and we will reap the reward of the real advantages we possess.”
As printed in the Island News June 5, 1884
“ Coupeville is one of the pleasantest towns on Puget Sound, situated on Penn’s Cove, and is the county seat of Island County. This town is comprised of two stores of general merchandise, one drug store, three hotels, two saloons, one blacksmith and wagon shop, courthouse, post office, schoolhouse and about twenty-five dwelling houses, a church of the Methodist denomination, and efforts are being made to organize an Episcopal church.
There is daily communication with all points on the Sound, and the town is backed by the very best of farming country ...
While we don’t put on any airs as some of the would-be towns on the Sound, we can look back upon the past year with great complacency; while Seattle and other towns are heralding the marvelous growth of their places, I venture the assertion that there is not a town on the Sound that has improved as rapidly or so permanently as Coupeville has during this past year.
Real estate has enhanced in value more in the past year than in the previous ten years, and what is still better, our values are not fictitious, but real, and will steadily increase until attention will be called to our beautiful town and island, and we will reap the reward of the real advantages we possess.”
As printed in the Island News June 5, 1884
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