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Charles X. Larrabee is honored today

<< Back to archives | Saturday, October 18, 2008

Sculptor Bob McDermott is photographed next to his heroic bust of Charles X. Larrabee this afternoon.  Over 200 people enjoyed the unveiling of the statue on this unusually sunny and warm day of October.  Charles Larrabee invested and built in Fairhaven in the 1880s and stayed here through the depression of the 1890s.  He died in 1914.  His widow shared his fortune by endowing many projects that we still enloy today such as Larrabee State Park which was the first state park in Washington state.  She also endowed Fairhaven Park, the land for the Fairhaven Library, Elizabeth Park, the Bellingham YWCA building and many more local projects. 

Brian Griffin, of course, headed up the effort to fund and commission the statue.  David Ebenal provided the location of the pedastal and bust on the property of his Young and Waldron buildings.  A photo gallery of more views from today is now posted.