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Friday Harbor is a town in San Juan County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,989 at the 2000 census. Located on San Juan Island, it is the major commercial center of the San Juan Islands archipelago. It is the county seat of San Juan County. History: In 1845 the Hudson's Bay Company laid claim to San Juan Island. In 1850 they built a salmon curing station. A few years later they started a sheep farm. The harbor got its name from Joseph Poalie (Poalima?) Friday, a Kanaka - a native Hawaiian man who worked at the Hudson's Bay Company's Cowlitz farm from 1841 to 1859-60. He moved north to San Juan Island and raised sheep around the harbor. After the peaceful settlement of the Pig War, the islands became a separate county in 1873. Friday Harbor was named the county seat of San Juan County. Friday Harbor was officially incorporated on February 10, 1909. It is the only incorporated town in the San Juan Islands. Sailing ships, and later, steamships (part of the Puget Sound ... Read more about Friday Harbor on Wikipedia