American Camp, San Juan Island, Washington. This is from the lieutenant’s quarters porch looking towards the laundress quarters.
American Camp, San Juan Island, Washington. This is taken from the lieutenant’s quarters porch looking towards the laundress quarters. In 1859, little did American farmer Lyman Cutlar know when he shot a pig that kept wandering onto his homestead that it would start an international incident. But that’s just what it did. England’s Hudson’s Bay Company, who owned the pig and whose sheep farm it had wandered from, demanded reparations. Backed by the British Army--who, like the Americans were claiming the San Juans as their own--Hudson’s Bay came down hard on Cutlar. Defending their American farmer as well as their island interests, the called in troops from Fort Bellingham. American Camp, at southern tip of San Juan Island, is where the United States prepared for war, all because of the shooting of a pig. The incident came to be known as the Pig War. Thankfully, war was averted, the United States was awarded the San Juan Islands and now American Camp, as well as British Camp, are national historical parks.
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Location: American Camp, San Juan Island, Washington, USA
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