Seattle’s Center for Wooden Boats Researches Washington State’s Vanished Waterfront Resorts

Documenting Washington waterfront resorts and boathouses from the 1890s to 1970, and their disappearance

The Center for Wooden boats has won a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation to gather information about the resorts and better understand their disappearance. Camano Island, WA [July 31, 2012] Hundreds of beach resorts once dotted Washington State waters – but they have all disappeared.