Freeman Island is a tiny island in the San Juan Islands of the U.S. state of Washington, west of Orcas Island.
The name was given by Charles Wilkes during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838–1842, originally as Freeman's Island, in honor of J.D. Freeman, the sailmaker of the expedition's Peacock.
Freeman island sits just off YMCA Camp Orkila, and is a popular rowboat destination for the campers.
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“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from others lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)