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Article: PRIDE AND PAIN MARK THE RICH HISTORY OF BAINBRIDGE ISLAND.(Neighbors)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 26, 1997
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Bainbridge Island has a rich, ethnic history dating back centuries, when it was home to the Suquamish people, who set up summer fishing camps at Eagle Harbor and returned in the fall to villages at Port Madison and other areas.
In 1792 Capt. George Vancouver anchored off Restoration Point on the island's south end. The English explorer was followed nearly 50 years later by Capt. Charles Wilkes, an American who named the island for Commodore William Bainbridge, a naval hero of the War of 1812.
The island's early days are chronicled in ``A History of Bainbridge Island,'' available for $7.95 at the Bainbridge Island Public Library. It was written by island ...