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The first tulips in Skagit Valley were grown commercially on a forty-acre farm on Samish Island about 1905. Bulbs were imported from Holland to improve this crop and the valley’s bulb industry flourished. Early farmers were critical of the bulb growers for putting the rich valley land to such trivial use when it was excellent for cabbage seed, oats, hay, hops and barley. The bulb industry soon proved its value as more bulb farmers settled in Skagit County. They were an industrious and quiet b...
When Fred Martin arrived in La Conner on July 23, 1956, with wife Margaret and their children John and Faye, people were already lined up, anxious for the door to open at the drug store the Martins had purchased on First Street. Word had already spread quickly through town that Mr. Olson’s drugstore had new owners. That very evening Fred left Margaret settling in to the small living quarters behind the store while he attended his first meeting of the La Conner Rotary Club. Fred was to remain a R...
