Bellingham is a city located just south of the Canada-United States border, on the
northeastern shores of the Puget Sound in the Salish Sea; it is the largest city in Whatcom County.
Bellingham was named by Joseph Whidbey while surveying for Captain Vancouver in 1792, after Sir William Bellingham. As with today, a number of indigenous groups,
including the Lummi, Nooksack, and Coast Salish, called the land around Bellingham
home prior to European settlement.1