* Guemes Island

Skagit Transit also operates the Guemes Island ferry linking Anacortes, Washington to Guemes Island.

* Guemes Island

There is also a Skagit County-operated ferry that serves Guemes Island, a residential island located across a strait north of Anacortes.

Doris Burn at her home in Guemes Island, WA

The family resided on Guemes Island near Anacortes.

Agricultural land on Guemes Island

Location of Guemes Island

Guemes Island is a small island in western Skagit County, Washington state, USA.

It is located north of Fidalgo Island and the town of Anacortes, and is accessible by both private boat and by the Guemes Island ferry operated by Skagit County.

Guemes Island has a rural character with limited facilities.

There are only two retail stores on the island: Anderson's General Store and The Guemes Island Resort, the latter having been in business since the mid-1940s.

There are also two parks: one in the middle of the island known as Schoolhouse Park, and the other, Young ’ s Park, located on North Beach near The Guemes Island Resort.

The community located on Guemes Island is generally referred to as " Guemes ".

Guemes Island was named by the Spanish explorer José María Narváez as Isla de Güemes, during the 1791 expedition of Francisco de Eliza, in honor of the Viceroy of Mexico, Juan Vicente de Güemes Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo.

In 1841 Charles Wilkes of the United States Exploring Expedition gave the name " Lawrence Island " to Guemes Island, to honor the American naval officer James Lawrence.

Guemes Island was also commonly known locally as Dog Island in the early 20th century, as there were a large number of dogs living wild on the island.

* May 2 – Guemes Padilla Horcasitas, the Viceroy of New Spain ( b. 1740 )

She had four children, whom she taught for one year on Guemes Island's one-room schoolhouse.

He also gave the name " Hornet Harbor " to Guemes Channel, for the USS Hornet, which Lawrence commanded during the War of 1812.

Nautical and æronatical charts note a magnetic disturbance off the southeastern tip of Guemes Island.

Since Rhode Island at that time did not have such sanction, his opinion was not popular.

East Greenwich was one of the first Rhode Island towns to enter into contract agreement with the Rhode Island Development Council for planning services we could not provide for ourselves.

Below in the open bay facing Manhattan was Staten Island, gritty with clam shells and mud flats behind which nested farms, cattle barns, and berry thickets.

Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

To determine the practice and attitude of municipal governments concerning tangible movable property, a questionnaire was sent to all local government assessors or boards of assessors in Rhode Island.

Local industry's investment in Rhode Island was the big story in 1960's industrial development effort.

With minor exceptions, this expansion was instituted either by firms based in Rhode Island or out-of-state manufacturers already operating here.

What made these new location figures particularly impressive was the fact that although 1960 was a year of mild business recession throughout the nation, Rhode Island scored marked progress in new industry, new plants, and new jobs.

The State Ballet of Rhode Island, the first incorporated group, was formed for the purpose of extending knowledge of the art of ballet in the Community, to promote interest in ballet performances, to contribute to the cultural life of the State, and to provide opportunity for gifted dance students who, for one reason or another, are unable to pursue a career and to develop others for the professional state ; ;

Sydney Le Blanc, age 15, Staten Island, N.Y., showing a Doberman Pinscher, was 2nd.

Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.

Between the abutments on the Newbury shore and the south bank of Deer Island there was one span or arch measuring 160 feet ; ;

between the north shore of Deer Island and the Salisbury side there was an arch of 113 feet and a series of piers with a draw forty feet long.

During the month of November hardly a day passed when there was not some mention of John Brown in the Rhode Island newspapers.

Such was not the case in Rhode Island.

Her husband, who was sentenced to 15 years in the federal prison at McNeil Island last April for robbery of the Hillsdale branch of Multnomah Bank, also was charged with the store holdup.

A check for $4,177.37 representing the last payment of a $50,000 federal grant to Rhode Island Hospital was presented to the hospital administrator, Oliver G. Pratt, yesterday by Governor Notte.

Prior to that he was associated with Long Island University in Brooklyn.

My cousin Alma, at whose home I was staying during the convention, introduced me to a group of young people from Rhode Island.

On July 9, 2011, Agassi was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Newport, Rhode Island.