Smallpox Bay is a
bay
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...
on the west side of
San Juan Island in the
U.S. state of
Washington.
Smallpox Bay was named for the fact that a group of indigenous victims of the
1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic
Year 186 ( CLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Glabrio (or, less frequently, year 939 ''Ab urbe con ...
died there and their corpses burned by US officers.
References
Bodies of water of San Juan County, Washington
Bays of Washington (state)
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