Shaw Island Library and Historical Society (Out of Many, One display)

Shaw Island Museum

The Shaw Island Museum is a log cabin originally built on the Bert Tift homestead in Post Office Bay on Shaw Island. In the late 1800s, the cabin served as Shaw Island’s first post office. The structure’s square footage is approximately 250 square feet and houses the museum’s present-day artifact collection.

How it represents the community’s American experience:

Pioneer and first postmaster, Bert Tift, homesteaded on Shaw from 1872 to 1909, and the log structure was built during those years. The log cabin and the land it now occupies were purchased and donated by a small group of island residents. The log structure was carefully moved log by log from the original Post Office Bay site to its present-day site in 1969. The cedar shake roof was replaced in 2021 with 42″ long hand-split cedar shakes. from a mill on San Juan Island.

The Museum is open year-round. Tuesdays: 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.; Thursdays: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.; and Saturdays: 10 a.m. – noon & 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.