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Family Stories

The Story of Port Angeles

Just before the quarantine-at-home of 2020 began, I discovered evidence of a
book about Port Angeles and had a copy “inter-library-loaned” to my local

library. The book is apparently so “rare” that I was only able to read it at the
library and I did so on three separate occasions, finishing just before the library
closed for the duration. The book first caught my attention because Herman
Fisher, my great-great grandfather (and many other Fishers for that matter)
are mentioned frequently in the book. The book is called “The Story of Port
Angeles” by G. M. Lauridsen. Herman M. Fisher (Herman E. Fisher’s son) was

a co-contributor to the book.

The book contains stories about many of Port Angeles’s earliest pioneers and
contains information about Lake Sutherland and Lake Crescent as well as
mention of civic projects and events that were taking place around the town.

Here are some highlights:

• On Sutherland original locators were Herman Fisher at West End; E.E.

Fisher, adjoining his father, Herman; R.N. (“Bob”) Wilson, at present
Maple Grove (the site of the Everett and Sutherland pioneer cabin). p. 210

• Tradition has it that the two lakes were once one great body of water before

a vast slide of mountain top came down from the ridge to the south and
formed the terrains now dividing them. p. 210

• Frank P. Fisher early developed a long popular resort at East Beach; first
with a small log cabin, and later a story-and-a-half frame building,

tents and cabins adjoining. Mr. Fisher never operated the place
personally, leasing it regularly to others. His father, Herman Fisher, was

the first in charge and played host to Admiral Beardslee on occasion of
the latter’s first visit to Port Angeles and Lake Crescent. pp. 212-213

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