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The history of Bellingham, Washington, as it is now known, begins with the settling of Whatcom County in the mid-to-late 19th century. The name of Bellingham is derived from the bay on which the city is situated. George Vancouver, who visited the area in June 1792, named the bay for Sir William Bellingham, the controller of the storekeeper's account of the Royal Navy. ==European settlers== When the first white European settlers reached the area in 1854, the coastal areas around Bellingham Bay and the surrounding islands had been inhabited for thousands of years by Coast Salish peoples. The land on which Bellingham is located was ceded to European Americans by the local Native American tribes, including the Lummi people, in the controversial Treaty of Point Elliott (1855). The Lummi people continue to live in the area, many of them on Lummi Peninsula across the bay from the present-day City of Bellingham. Local history and legend credit one "Blanket" Bill Jarman as the first white man to reside in the area. The first substantial settlement was named Whatcom, located where Whatcom Creek empties into the bay. ("Whatcom" is based on a local Indian word meaning "noisy water," referring to Whatcom falls at the mouth of the creek.) It was at this location that schooner Capt. Henry Roeder and Russel Peabody set up a lumber mill, having been told of the falls location by Lummi leader Chow’it’sut while south in Olympia, Washington. The mill was later destroyed by a fire in 1873. Roeder also established coal mining operations in the area of town that came to be called Sehome (named after a member of the nearby Samish Indian tribe). A stockade, "Fort Bellingham", was built on Peabody Hill, and commanded by Captain George E. Pickett, who arrived in 1856 and later became famous as a Confederate General in the American Civil War. Pickett's house remains to this day as the oldest house in the city. Where Fort Bellingham was located now lies northwest just outside of the current city limits, near a road that still bear the name "Ft. Bellingham." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of Bellingham, Washington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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