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.