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Langley is a small city at the southern end of Whidbey Island in Island County, perched on a bluff overlooking Saratoga Passage.

The Langley townsite was a Snohomish people camping place known in Lushootseed as sc'q'abac, meaning "gooseberry bush," with a Snohomish village at nearby Sandy Point before the Snohomish were removed to the Tulalip Reservation in the late 1800s.

Langley was founded in the 1890s by Jacob Anthes and named for J. W. Langley of Seattle.

Langley was officially incorporated on February 26, 1913.

A logger bunkhouse built by Jacob Anthes in 1902 still stands in Langley's downtown core and now serves as the South Whidbey Historical Society Museum.

The 2020 census counted 1,147 residents in Langley living in 630 households, and with a median age of 63.5 years, Langley is one of Washington's oldest communities by population age.

Nicknamed "The Village by the Sea," Langley has had an artists' colony since 1915 and is today one of Washington's state-designated Creative Districts.

Langley was one of the first municipalities in the nation to elect an all-female city council, and its first woman mayor championed the Langley Library, which was built in 1923 and is now part of the Sno-Isle Libraries system.

The Whidbey Island Area Fair, founded in 1912, is held at the Island County Fairgrounds in Langley, and in the late 1900s escaped 4-H rabbits from the fair founded Langley's famous feral rabbit population.

Langley hosts an annual Mystery Weekend in which the whole town becomes the board for a whodunit game, and its historic Clyde Theatre got its start on the top floor of the 1908 Dog House building.