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Hansville, Washington
Hansville is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kitsap County, Washington, Kitsap County, Washington (state), Washington, United States. Its population was 3,858 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The coastal community is located at the northern end of the Kitsap Peninsula and is about northeast of Poulsbo, Washington, Poulsbo, the nearest city. History 19th century Point No Point was first sighted by a European settler, and given its English name, during the United States Exploring Expedition of Puget Sound in 1841. Expedition leader Charles Wilkes gave the site its name because it appears much less of a promontory at close range than it does from a distance. On January 25, 1855, Isaac Stevens, the governor of the newly organized Washington Territory, summoned a treaty council to Point No Point, which was attended by 1,200 Native Americans in the United States, American Indians of the Chimakum, Klal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Census-designated Place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such as self-governing city (United States), cities, town (United States), towns, and village (United States), villages, for the purposes of gathering and correlating statistical data. CDPs are populated areas that generally include one officially designated but currently unincorporated area, unincorporated community, for which the CDP is named, plus surrounding inhabited countryside of varying dimensions and, occasionally, other, smaller unincorporated communities as well. CDPs include small rural communities, Edge city, edge cities, colonia (United States), colonias located along the Mexico–United States border, and unincorporated resort and retirement community, retirement communities and their environs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puget Sound
Puget Sound ( ; ) is a complex estuary, estuarine system of interconnected Marine habitat, marine waterways and basins located on the northwest coast of the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. As a part of the Salish Sea, the sound (geography), sound has one major and two minor connections to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which in turn connects to the open Pacific Ocean. The major connection is Admiralty Inlet; the minor connections are Deception Pass and the Swinomish Channel. Puget Sound extends approximately from Deception Pass in the north to Olympia, Washington, Olympia in the south. Its average depth is and its maximum depth, off Jefferson Point between Indianola, Washington, Indianola and Kingston, Washington, Kingston, is . The depth of the main basin, between the southern tip of Whidbey Island and Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma, is approximately . In 2009, the term Salish Sea was established by the United States Board on Geographic Names as the collective wate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Point No Point
Point No Point () is an outcropping of land on the northeast point of the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington (U.S. state), Washington, the United States. It was the location of the signing of the Point No Point Treaty and is the site of the Point No Point Light (Washington), Point No Point Light. The Lushootseed name of the point is , which means "long point". It was named by Charles Wilkes during the United States Exploring Expedition of Puget Sound in 1841. Wilkes gave the point its name because it appears much less of a promontory at close range than it does from a distance. Point No Point has been noted for its place names considered unusual, unusual place name. The marine climate ensures plenty of Precipitation (meteorology), precipitation in winter and mild temperatures in summer. There are many productive habitats. The spit itself has sandy beaches with log jams, as well as some man-made structures for boating. Behind the beaches is a large mixed freshwater/salt marsh, saltw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hood Canal
Hood Canal is a fjord-like body of water that lies south of Admiralty Inlet in Washington State that some consider to be the western lobe and one of the five main basins of Puget Sound.Features Of Puget Sound Region: Oceanography And Physical Processes Chapter 3 of th King County Department of Natural Resources, Seattle, Washington, 2001. It is one of the minor bodies of water that constitute the Salish Sea. Maximum depth is 600 ft. Hood Canal is not a |
Kitsap Sun
The ''Kitsap Sun'' is a daily newspaper published in Bremerton, Washington, United States. It covers general news and serves Kitsap, Jefferson, and Mason counties on the west side of Puget Sound. History Publication of The ''Sun'' began in 1935 as the ''Bremerton Sun'' to compete with the ''Seattle Star'' directly across Puget Sound. Four years later, the circulation of the ''Sun'' surpassed that of its competitor. In 1940, John P. Scripps Newspaper Group acquired the newspaper. In June 1984, it formally changed names from the ''Bremerton Sun'' to ''The Sun''. It was merged with the E. W. Scripps Company in 1986 and began publishing a Sunday morning edition in 1991. On May 22, 2005, the newspaper was renamed the ''Kitsap Sun'' to reflect the regional nature of its coverage. The company spun off its newspaper assets into Journal Media Group in April 2015. Archive The University of Washington Library holds copies of the ''Kitsap Sun'' from 1935 to present. Notable s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingston, Washington
Kingston (formerly Appletree Cove) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,515 at the 2020 census. Kingston is along the shores of Appletree Cove and Puget Sound, and is home to a major Washington State Ferry terminal linking it to Edmonds. Geography Kingston is located in northeastern Kitsap County at (47.798764, −122.499071), on the east side of the Kitsap Peninsula. Washington State Route 104 runs through the community from the Washington State Ferry terminal, leading northwest to Port Gamble. Bremerton is to the southwest by highway. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Kingston CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 10.31%, are water. Climate History Founded in 1853 by Benjamin Bannister, the community was originally known as " Appletree Cove". By 1880 it was a lumber town until the mill closed down in the early 20th century. Known as the " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Point No Point Treaty Plaque
A point is a small dot or the sharp tip of something. Point or points may refer to: Mathematics * Point (geometry), an entity that has a location in space or on a plane, but has no extent; more generally, an element of some abstract topological space * Point, or Element (category theory), generalizes the set-theoretic concept of an element of a set to an object of any category * Critical point (mathematics), a stationary point of a function of an arbitrary number of variables * Decimal point * Point-free geometry * Stationary point, a point in the domain of a single-valued function where the value of the function ceases to change Places * Point, Cornwall, England, a settlement in Feock parish * Point, Lewis, a peninsula in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland * Point, Texas, a city in Rains County, Texas, United States * Point, the NE tip and a ferry terminal of Lismore, Inner Hebrides, Scotland * Points, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States Business and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Point No Point Treaty
The Point No Point Treaty was signed on January 26, 1855, at Point No Point, on the northern tip of the Kitsap Peninsula. Governor of Washington Territory, Isaac Stevens, convened the treaty council on January 25, with the S'Klallam, the Chimakum, and the Skokomish tribes. Under the terms of the treaty, the original inhabitants of northern Kitsap Peninsula and Olympic Peninsula ceded ownership of their land in exchange for small reservations along Hood Canal and a payment of $60,000 from the federal government. The treaty required the natives to trade only with the United States, to free all their slaves, and to not acquire any new slaves. On the first day of the council, treaty provisions were translated from English to the Chinook Jargon for the 1,200 natives who assembled at the sand spit they called ''Hahdskus'', across Admiralty Inlet from Whidbey Island. Today this is the site of a lighthouse A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skokomish Indian Tribe
The Skokomish Indian Tribe, formerly known as the Skokomish Indian Tribe of the Skokomish Reservation, and in its own official use the Skokomish Tribal Nation, is a federally recognized tribe of Skokomish, Twana, Klallam, and Chimakum people. They are a tribe of Southern Coast Salish indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest located in Washington. The Skokomish are one of nine bands of Twana people. Reservation The Skokomish Reservation is located on several square miles of Mason County, just north of Shelton, Washington at . Some Klallam people were relocated onto the reservation after signing the 1855 Point No Point Treaty. Government The Skokomish Indian Tribe is headquartered in Skokomish, Washington. The tribe is governed by a seven-member, democratically elected General Council. The current tribal administration is as follows: * Chairman: Charles "Guy" Miller * Vice-chair: Terri Twiddy-Butler * Secretary: Alex Gouley * Council Member: Lyle Wilbur * Council Member: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klallam
The Klallam (; also known as the S'Klallam or Clallam) are a Coast Salish people Indigenous to the northern Olympic Peninsula. The language of the Klallam is the Klallam language (), a language closely related to the North Straits Salish languages. The Klallam are today citizens of four recognized bands: Three federally-recognized tribes in the United States and one band government in Canada. Two Klallam tribes, the Jamestown S'Klallam and Lower Elwha Klallam, live on the Olympic Peninsula, and one, the Port Gamble S'Klallam, on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington state. In Canada, the Scia'new First Nation is based at Becher Bay on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Name and etymology The Klallam-language name for the tribe is (meaning "strong people"). According to the oral history of the Klallam, the name was earned after the tribe won a challenge around hoisting a log onto a house. They put the log in the water, and then floated it onto their shoulders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chimakum
The Chemakum, also spelled Chimakum and Chimacum, Native American people (known to themselves as Aqokúlo and sometimes called the Port Townsend Indians), were a group of Native Americans who lived in the northeastern portion of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, between Hood Canal and Discovery Bay until their virtual extinction in 1902. Their primary settlements were on Port Townsend Bay, on the Quimper Peninsula, and Port Ludlow Bay to the south. Today, Chimakum people are enrolled in three federally recognized tribes: the Skokomish, Jamestown S'Klallam, and Port Gamble S'Klallam tribes, although lineage is not traceable at present. Population The Chimakum population was estimated at 400 in 1780 and 90 in 1855. The Census of 1910 enumerated just three, according to the census of Franz Boas. The three remaining tribe members spoke only broken Chimakum language. In the present day there are people who identify as Chimakums or descendants of Chimakums. Language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Native Americans In The United States
Native Americans (also called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans) are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of the United States, particularly of the Contiguous United States, lower 48 states and Alaska. They may also include any Americans whose origins lie in any of the indigenous peoples of North or South America. The United States Census Bureau publishes data about "American Indians and Alaska Natives", whom it defines as anyone "having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America ... and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment". The census does not, however, enumerate "Native Americans" as such, noting that the latter term can encompass a broader set of groups, e.g. Native Hawaiians, which it tabulates separately. The European colonization of the Americas from 1492 resulted in a Population history of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, precipitous decline in the size of the Native American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
