The East Parcel: School Land

In the Galen Biery edition of the Harris Journal is a map of the original homesteaders at Lake Samish. (The Lake Samish Association's history web page includes a scanned copy of the Harris Journal, though without the map.) The Point is within parcels 9 and 10:

As described in the last post, Parcel 10 (the West Parcel) was first homesteaded by Thomas McTighe (though the year given on the Harris map, 1893, conflicts with the year of 1899 shown on the government homestead record). Parcel 9 (the East Parcel), however, was not homesteaded by an individual, but rather was designated as school land.

The Harris Journal states that a school was established at Lake Samish during that period, but not within Parcel 9. Instead, the first school at Lake Samish seems to have been established on Sam Humphries' land in Parcel 5, and the Lake Samish Association's history page corroborates this. Why the school was built outside the designated school land is a curiosity yet to be resolved.