Vancouver anchored here in 1792, first calling it Village Point, but since celebrating Restoration Day here, the anniversary of the Stuarts’ return to the English throne, the name was changed to Restoration Point. On the reef off the point, the famed sloop-of-war, Decatur, first revenue cutter on Puget Sound, went aground in 1856, and the crew was barely able to make repairs in time to help rout the Indians in the Battle of Seattle (see Seattle). Cmdr. Charles Wilkes charted it as Gorden Point in 1841 for John Gorden, a quartermaster with the expedition. On some older maps it appears as Garden Point and a local name was Bean’s Point.

Located on the east shore of Bainbridge Island at the north entrance to Eagle Harbor, named by Cmdr. Charles Wilkes on the same day he named Eagle Harbor. Bill Point is across the bay from here and evidently, Wilkes related the two points to the “eagle” in Eagle Harbor.

The former Eagledale ferry dock at the end of Taylor Avenue on Bainbridge Island exhibits the same setting, landscape, and feeling as in March 1942, when Bainbridge Island Japanese (Issei) and Japanese Americans (Nisei and Sansei) became the nation’s first Nikkei families to be forced to evacuate their homes and move into internment camps. Although the ferry dock itself is now gone, support beams and pilings remain, and the landscape and historic viewshed of the parking and staging areas have been neither developed nor altered.