History:

The AIHS was chartered in 1975 by a small group of Island residents whose vision and foresightedness was exemplary of the community spirit which is a tradition on Anderson Island. A lifestyle familiar to native Islanders was rapidly disappearing.

The purpose of the organization was to establish a museum in order to ensure that still vivid memories and artifacts would not be lost and forgotten. The continuing goal of the Society is to provide public education through collection, preservation, research, interpretation and exhibition of artifacts, documents and photographs relevant to the settlement and development of Anderson Island.

The period between 1850 and 1975 has been chosen as the chronological scope within which the collections will be maintained because that era saw the settlement of the Island which played an historic role in development of the region known as South Puget Sound.