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Syllabus

10/18: Change of Worlds: an overview of the original inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest, and their earliest contacts with European explorers.

10/25: The Lost Years: the era of peaceful trading coexistence between England's Hudson Bay Company and the Salish peoples of what is today western Washington.

11/1: Manifest Destiny: there goes the neighborhood: the first American settlers and their Army arrive in the new Washington Territory.

11/8: Capture the Flag: settling the last boundary dispute with Great Britain, and the impact of the Civil War in Washington.

11/15: The Rise of Coveland: building a new American town with commerce, agriculture and infrastructure.

11/22: Becoming Coupeville: shifting to a new location in anticipation of a railroad terminus, the seat of Island County finally settled into its permanent home, incorporating in 1910.