"Captain George Pickett’s first tent stake was barely hammered in July 1859 when the first liquor establishment rose in a wall tent about 25 yards above the Hudson’s Bay Company dock on Griffin Bay. This was was start of San Juan Village. Barges soon appeared with shacks and cots from the abandoned mining camp on Bellingham Bay." - Mike Vuori, "Scofflaws and Moonshine: San Juan’s Stormy Joint Occupation"