"Once the site of three permanent Lower Skagit Tribal villages, Coupeville encompasses central Whidbey Island between the Salish Sea and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, below the San Juan Islands in Washington state. Washington’s second oldest town, Coupeville is named after sea Captain and settler Thomas Coupe. Settlers to Whidbey in the 1850’s included sea captains and farmers.

Many of Coupeville’s older 1900’s structures survived into the twentieth century. In the 1970s when Whidbey Island’s citizens began to aggressively support restoration, preservation (of farm land and buildings), the arts, Coupeville became a National Historic Preservation District recognized by the United State Library of Congress’s National Register of Historic Places. Likewise many of Coupeville’s historic buildings are listed in Library of Congress’s Historic American Buildings Survey."

Site: https://coupevillehistoricwaterfront.com/photo-history/