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Liberty Bay

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 of dogfish. The State Legislature disliked that name, and renamed it Patterson, which did not persist. The present name was chosen by local inhabitants.

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