Editing Friday Harbor, Washington (section)

==History==
[[File:Salmon cannery of the Friday Harbor Packing Co, Friday Harbor, Washington, 1915 (COBB 95).jpeg|thumb|left|Friday Harbor Packing Co. salmon cannery Friday Harbor and Puget Sound Navigation Co.'s steamer ''Whatcom'' at dock, 1915]]
In 1845 the [[Hudson's Bay Company]] laid claim to [[San Juan Island]].  In 1850 they built a salmon curing station.  A few years later they started a sheep farm.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fridayharbor.com/ihistory.cfm|title=History and stories of Friday Harbor|access-date=May 31, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609134131/http://www.fridayharbor.com/ihistory.cfm|archive-date=June 9, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The town's name originates from Joseph Poalie Friday, a [[Native Hawaiians|native Hawaiian]].  Friday worked at the [[Pugets Sound Agricultural Company]]'s [[Fort Cowlitz]], from 1841 to 1859–60 and later moved north to San Juan Island, raising and herding sheep around the harbor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.byd2.com/history/|title=Who is Friday Harbor Named After Anyway?}}</ref>

After the peaceful settlement obtained following the [[Pig War (1859)|Pig War]], the San Juan Islands became a separate county in 1873.  Friday Harbor was named the county seat.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fridayharbor.org/about%20the%20town/history.htm|title=A brief history of Friday Harbor|access-date=May 31, 2007|archive-date=March 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317152309/http://www.fridayharbor.org/about%20the%20town/history.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Friday Harbor was officially incorporated on February 10, 1909. It remains the only incorporated town in the San Juan Islands.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oldsite.sanjuanislander.com/town/historic_preservation/info.shtml|title=Voluntarily preserving Friday Harbor's history|access-date=March 16, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411191432/http://oldsite.sanjuanislander.com/town/historic_preservation/info.shtml|archive-date=April 11, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Sailing ships, and later, the steamships of the [[Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet]], visited the harbor on a regular basis hauling passengers, mail and freight. Freight from the island would include apples, pears, cherries, strawberries, peas, cream, eggs, chickens, grain, salmon, and lime.  All were produced on or around San Juan Island.  The Great Depression, World War II, the pea weevil, and competition from Eastern Washington growers brought about the decline of traditional island industries, diminishing Friday Harbor's export trade.  The 1970s brought new industries - tourism, retirement, real estate, and construction.  Today, Friday Harbor is again busy and prosperous.

[[Osamu Shimomura]] harvested jellyfish from the docks of the harbor. Eventually he purified the proteins that allow the jellyfish to fluoresce green when exposed to blue light. One of them, [[green fluorescent protein]], is now widely used as a marker of molecular activity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dailyuw.com/2008/11/4/floating-top-uw-hosts-nobel-winning-research-invol/|title=Floating to the Top|access-date=April 3, 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130121130041/http://dailyuw.com/2008/11/4/floating-top-uw-hosts-nobel-winning-research-invol/|archive-date=January 21, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>