After the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard was established at Bremerton there were many small communities established to take advantage of the expected boom. This place was platted in 1909 and had a school of its own in 1913. It now exists as a part of the City of Bremerton.

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

USS Hornet

USS Missouri

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

Coder-Coleman House

Bremerton Main Post Office

East Bremerton

Bremerton Elks Lodge Temple

Bremerton Trust and Savings Bank

Port Washington Narrow Bridge

Ostrich Bay is a southern extension of Dyes Inlet directly northwest of Bremerton. It was named in 1841 by Cmdr. Charles Wilkes, because the bay's outline on his detailed chart had a resemblance to the figure of an ostrich.

An inlet connected with Port Orchard Bay by Washington Narrows, directly north of Bremerton four miles east of Hood Canal is named Dyes Inlet. The Native American name was Squh-buck. Its present name was chosen by the Wilkes Expedition of 1841 for John W. W. Dyes, assistant taxidermist on the USS Vincennes.

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.

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

Walker Farm

Holm Homestead

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

Hood Canal Oyster

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

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...

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...

Mile: 55

It was made a post office on November 30, 1892. It was named by Ole M. Able who thought that the home of Baldur, the Nordic god of love and beauty would be appropriate for the community. The post office was closed on August 1, 1906 but a church and a few homes remain.

Mile: 56

A small community on the north shore of Appletree Cove. It was named for William P. Kingston, a lumberman, who started operations there in 1888. Kingston is a terminal in the State Ferry System.

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Kingston Hotel

Kingston School House

Mile: 25