Platting of Shallow Shores Road

The next clues about the Point's history come from a 1934 map of Crescent Township (the original name for the Whatcom County voting precinct surrounding Lake Samish; see page 21 of the Harris Journal for a brief explanation of the origins of the name).

A closeup of the map shows an E. Erickson as the owner of the West Parcel, and that the East Parcel is now platted along a road named Shallow Shores.

Source: Historic MapWorks

We don't yet know when or by whom Shallow Shores Road was platted, but it was sometime between 1916 and 1929. In an oral history about the Lake Samish community of 1929, a local resident named Davis said: "No one lived between Zugelders + Shallow Shores Road,  On Shallow Shores Road -- going north again from Nulle Road, the first house was Bill Sarland’s. He had the place where Morris is now. The present house was not there then. It was built about 1934 or 35, I think, could have been built in 36. I’m not real sure when any other permanent residents moved on to Shallow Shores, but I know that in 31 the McCullough’s were there + Roy Powells, also Al Forslof + another couple I don’t know."

We should be able to obtain road and original platting records that indicate when and by whom Shallow Shores Road was created.