Maylor's Pt.

The Maylor bunch is an old pioneer family in Oak Town. Couple of brothers had some a big ol' donation claim to the area that is now the seaplane base and the officer housing on get this, Maylor's Point. It used to be a super fertile farmland with a marsh and a lush forest. When the Skagit lived there they hunted the forest and fished and crabbed off the Eastern side. On the Western side, where the marsh currently sits there was a big long sand spit called crooked spit. This is where the Skagit buried their dead. Oak Harbor "pioneer" children talk about finding beads, arrowtips and other Indian artifacts on the beach, some still have them.

The Japanese bomb Hawaii, 15 months later the US Navy buys the farm (bah dum pish) and builds itself a runway. They look out across the harbor and see this spit, they look a little left and see a hill. They think "hey, what if we take that hill, fill in that spit and build another runway?!" The town is all "ummm...there's some dead indians there...y'know." so the navy goes to some Skagit people and is all "you've got until X to clear the remains out of there." The Skagit come out and get everything they can find.

The navy starts the project and finds out, nope, can't do it. so they half fill in the spit, create a big ol' marsh. Seventies come, they build a trail around the marsh and tout their enviro cred.

you may or may not be able to find beads there today.