Images of Pioneer Life

The Nixon Family of Twin Islands
The Twin Islands lie close to the south-west coast of Cortes, across from the site...
Farming on Hernando Island
Settlers on Hernando in the 1890s came to homestead and hand log and had a...
Logging on Hernando Island
When the first non-native settlers arrived on Hernando Island in the 1880s, they found large...
Manson’s Landing School
The log school shown in these pictures stood near the corner of Sutil Point and...
The  Manson Family
Two brothers from the Shetland Islands who pre-empted land in 1887 and 1888 were the...