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Port Gamble

This 68 mile side trip leads out past Dyer’s Inlet and Liberty Bay passing small port cities along the Puget Sound on the way to the National Historic Landmark Historic district of Port Gamble, ending at Kingston with ferry connection to Edmonds.

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Closed to public access, and known today as Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton. The Navy Yard was established September 16, 1891, with Lieutenant Wycoff in command. The first vessel to call at the yard was the Japanese ship Yamagucha Maru; the second was the old flagship USS Oregon. Operations of the yard include the repairing, overhauling, or building of battleships, destroyers, and submarines. By the 1940s the yard featured three drydocks:...

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Puget Sound Naval Shipyard

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USS Hornet

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USS Missouri

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USS Ranger CV-61

Almost everything in Bremerton owes its presence there to "the yard," which is the local designation for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, the ruling factor in the economic life of Kitsap County. For decades, it has been the center of Federal shipbuilding in the Pacific Northwest, and the "home port" for many U. S. Navy enlistees. The defense boom of 1940 brought immediate and tough problems to the city, when...

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Port Washington Narrows

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Coder-Coleman House

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Bremerton Main Post Office

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East Bremerton

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Bremerton Elks Lodge Temple

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Bremerton Trust and Savings Bank

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Port Washington Narrow Bridge

The community consists of expensive country homes grouped around a large general store and a school. It was named by B. S. Sparks in 1889 for Native American Chief Chico, who died in 1909. Chico was also known as William Whoa Whoa. He lived a long life of nearly one hundred years. A post office operated from February 25, 1889 to May 15, 1924.

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In 1880, it was given the name of Goldendale by a local resident named Munson. When he found the same name on a town in Klickitat County, he switched to the present name. A large rambling building, once a hotel, a number of abandoned stores, and several weathered houses date back to the late nineteenth century, when transportation on the peninsula was still almost entirely by water. By the 1940s,...

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Jackson Hall Memorial Building

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Walker Farm

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Holm Homestead

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Wheeler Farm

In the 1870s, the town grew up around a large sawmill established in 1851. Except for brief shutdowns, it operated continuously for over a quarter of a century. Boats loaded lumber at the wharves—ties for railroads in California, boards for homes in New Jersey, or shingles for barns in Iowa. Each year roads ran deeper into the forests as lumberjacks sought logs to feed the saws. One of the early...

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Seabeck Christian Conference Center

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Hood Canal Oyster

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Scenic Beach State Park

A village centering around the Naval Torpedo Station, continuously in operation since 1912, where torpedoes are serviced. A force of about 140 officers, marines, and sailors is stationed here. The brick barracks and shops are surrounded by a spacious lawn that slopes to the water’s edge. On a hill are the steel towers of the radio station. Mounted on concrete bases are powerful searchlights. Surrounding the station is a strong...

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Naval Torpedo Station

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Naval Undersea Museum

The northwest arm of Port Orchard bay, three miles long and a half mile wide east of Hood Canal. Settlements around the bay have a very strong Norwegian flavor. It was once the winter headquarters of a codfish fleet. In 1841, the bay was named May's Inlet by Cmdr. Charles Wilkes, for Passed Midshipman William May. The first white settlers called it Dogfish Bay, for the bay's once large population...

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The building is associated with the history of the rural Breidblik community on the Kitsap Peninsula, serving from 1908 until WWII as a community and religious center for the Scandinavian settlers who homesteaded the area. Reflecting both the ethnic heritage of the settlers and their religious independence, the chapel conducted services in Norwegian and Swedish without the restrictions of either permanent clergy or a mother church. Today, the chapel and...

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Mile: 55

The town dates back to 1853. In July of that year the 50-ton schooner Julius Pringle put out from San Francisco on a voyage of exploration to Puget Sound. The captain, one of the Talbots of Maine, whose shipping and lumbering interests reached across the continent, was seeking a mill site. Associated with him were two passengers, Cyrus Walker and A. J. Pope of East Machias, Maine. Talbot skirted the...

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