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121 Prospect Street
Bellingham, WA 98225

April 2023

Candace Wellman at the Whatcom County Historical Society local history program

April 13, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
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Join the Whatcom County Historical Society for a local history program in the Rotunda Room of Old City Hall. $5 suggested donation/members free. Local historian Candy Wellman will share the fascinating story of Edmund Clare Fitzhugh, head of the Sehome coal mine and company store, which for a time in the mid-1800s, was the Northwest's largest labor employer. Her book on Edmund C. Fitzhugh, Man of Treacherous Charm, will be released in April. In 1857, while the coal mine's manager, Fitzhugh…

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