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Date
Visited:
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Monday, April
5, 2004 |
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City
Visited #:
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402 |
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County:
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San Juan |
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Visited
With:
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David & Randy |
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City Name
History:
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The
resort town on the harbor of the same name at the northwestern extremity
of San Juan Island was named in 1858 in honor of Richard Roche, who
served in San Juan waters under British Capt. Henry Kellett in 1846 and
Capt. James C. Prevost in 1857-60. It was the site of a Hudson's
Bay Co. trading post established in 1850. From 1886 to 1940 it was
the home base of the Roche Harbor Lime and Cement Company, the largest lime
producer west of the Mississippi. The community which grew up
around the lime works was a company town owned by John S.
McMillan. The former Tacoma attorney entertained the elite,
including President Theodore Roosevelt, at his lavish Afterglow Manor
estate. The senior McMillan and his sons were ardent Masons and
built a seven-pillared edifice, commemorating the fraternal order's
concepts of family unity, that serves as a family mausoleum. |
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