Captain Benjamin Barstow (d. 1854) opened the first trading post at this location [Coveland, Washington] in 1853.
TOP O THE MORN: County cash stashed in tree (whidbeynewstimes.com) Samuel Libbey came to Penn’s Cove in 1853. He left his wife and two sons in Maine in 1852 and sailed to the Pacific with his brother-in-law Capt. Benjamin Barstow.
[Benjamin] Barstow established a trading post at the [Penn] cove, and Samuel took 320 acres at Point Partridge on the north side of today’s Libbey Road. He was joined by his family in 1859.
May 29th [of 1853]. The doctor [John Miller Haden] and I, piloted by Col. Eby, tramped to a little settlement on Penn’s cove, called Coveland. Here Capt. Boscoe and Dr. Lansdale were holding claims preparatory to the inauguration of a big city, which, however, can only be realized after they have provided a water supply for the future occupants. Dr. Lansdale lives in a little hut on the edge of the prairie at the head of the cove. Capt. Boscoe was building a trading store.
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