SAN JUAN ISLAND
Site — Friday Harbor, Washington
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
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The Pig War island—where the Americans and British faced off.

San Juan Island is a site in Friday Harbor, Washington. The Pig War island—where the Americans and British faced off. Its accounts name only a collective — the soldiers. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.

San Juan Island held the Pig War — the 1859 confrontation where an American settler shot a British pig and both nations' warships and soldiers faced off for twelve years of joint occupation, a war where the only casualty was the pig.
The file's documented spine is the standoff's absurdity and its camps: American Camp and English Camp both preserved, two armies' posts on one island, the boundary dispute that nearly went hot over livestock.

THE SOLDIERS AT THE CAMPS
The lore reports figures at the camps — the soldiers reportedly seen, the file's ghosts being the standoff's own: the men who occupied the island for twelve bloodless years reportedly still at the posts that never fought.
The soldiers' presence is the file's register — a war with one casualty reportedly keeping its garrisons, the camps' dead the Pig War's peaceful soldiers.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
San Juan Island is the archive's Pig War file — the island where two nations nearly fought over a pig, keeping soldiers reportedly at the twin camps. The documented standoff is the record; the lingering garrisons are the lore of a war that never fired.
An island that held two armies in one standoff keeps its soldiers — the file's suggestion being that the Pig War's garrisons are still on post, the only war where the occupation never fully ended.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] apparition: Reported figures at the camps. The site in Friday Harbor, Washington gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. The report keeps its place in the record.
  source: San Juan Island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan_Island_National_Historical_Park)
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The soldiers are reportedly seen. San Juan Island in Friday Harbor, Washington carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The account appears in 'San Juan Island'. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.
  source: San Juan Island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan_Island_National_Historical_Park)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1859] The 1859 confrontation is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'San Juan Island' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on. The reports keep the address on the map.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· San Juan Island — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan_Island_National_Historical_Park

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