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We would like to provide the residents of  Oak Harbor  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Oak Harbor Home page. The Oak Harbor Home page provides as much information as possible on Oak Harbor. Knowing Oak Harbor’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Oak Harbor’s Home page, you will also find Oak Harbor’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Oak Harbor has a population of 23358. 49.1% of Oak Harbor’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.9 are female. 58.1% of Oak Harbor is married and 42.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $295,212, and the average rent is $1,250. Household median income in Oak Harbor is $56,889, and the individual median income is $33,486. Oak Harbor’s Ethnic is the following: White(67.3%), Hispanic(15.5%), Multiple(11%), Asian(9.8%), Black(6.2%), Other(3.1%), Native(1.9%), Pacific(0.8%).


Oak Harbor - otherwise known as Kla-tole-tsche in the Salish language - is Whidbey Island's largest incorporated city; it is named for the Garry Oak trees which grace its skyline. The city's growth coincided with two major events: the building of Deception Pass Bridge on July 31, 1935, and the completion of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island on September 21, 1942.


The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe have been inhabiting Oak Harbor since time immemorial. In the early 1850s, two settlers staked claims where the city now stands—Zakarias Toftezen, a shoemaker from Norway; C.W. Sumner from New England.Houses and businesses sprouted up along the shores of Oak Harbor as the pioneers relied entirely on water transportation until the 1900s.


For the next 30 years, steamers and freighters carried passengers and freight from the Island to the mainland and back as well as Fidalgo Island to the north. The Irish came in the late 1850s, making Oak Harbor grow and prosper as they fished and farmed the area, and the city's Dutch heritage arrived in the 1890s.


Churches, schools, and more businesses followed the arrival of the Dutch. The high school was built in 1906. Oak Harbor flourished as a small country town until the Deception Pass Bridge and the NAS Whidbey Island base (built in 1935 and 1942 respectively) connected the city to the rest of the region and the world. Deception Pass Bridge, a National Historic Monument since 1982, is actually two spans that link Whidbey Island to Fidalgo Island over Canoe Pass and Deception Pass.


The bridge, one of the scenic wonders and destinations of the Pacific Northwest, was a Public Works Administration project built by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Deception Pass State Park has over 4,100 acres (17 km2) of forest, campsites, trails, and scenic vistas of the San Juan Islands, Victoria (British Columbia, Canada), Mount Baker, and Fidalgo Island.


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