English-Camp-Blockhouse-THEN

THEN: The English Camp Blockhouse on San Juan Island, also snapped around 1900. Site of the infamous Pig War (a 13-year standoff between Yanks and Brits beginning in 1959 with the shooting of a British pig by an American settler) which eventually led to U.S. possession of the San Juan Islands.

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