$5 Suggested Donation/Members Free

Join the Whatcom County Historical Society for a local history program in the Rotunda Room of Old City Hall for a presentation by Lynn Hyde, director of Historic Whidbey. Most Washingtonians have never heard of Colonel Granville Haller, but in the 1850s, his peripatetic adventures with the US Army provide a chronicle of Washington’s Territorial history. He was a frontline participant in the Yakama Wars in the east, in defense of Puget Sound from raiders in the west, and in the “Pig War” in the Straits of Juan de Fuca. An able witness to these troubled times, he returned to the Washington Territory after the Civil War to settle on Whidbey Island as a civilian entrepreneur. With connections to fellow men of action like Henry Roeder throughout the region, he left his mark on our state’s history, including his 1866 home on Coupeville’s historic waterfront. The Haller House is currently under rehabilitation to become a public heritage site by the nonprofit Historic Whidbey. Visit whatcomhistory.net to learn more about the topic and speaker.

This event will be live-streamed via the Museum’s YouTube channel.