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===== History Timeline ===== | ===== History Timeline ===== | ||
[http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/WA_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm#KITSAP Historical County Boundaries] from Newberry Library<ref>John H. Long, ''Atlas of Historical County Boundaries'' (Chicago: Newberry Library, 2006) [http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/ online].</ref><br><br> Emphasis for this timeline is on events that affected migration, records, or record-keeping. Unless otherwise mentioned, the events below were gleaned from Wilma, David. ''Kitsap County -- Thumbnail History'', [http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7864 History Link.org] Essay 7864. | [http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/WA_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm#KITSAP Historical County Boundaries] from Newberry Library<ref>John H. Long, ''Atlas of Historical County Boundaries'' (Chicago: Newberry Library, 2006) [http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/ online].</ref><br><br> Emphasis for this timeline is on events that affected migration, records, or record-keeping. Unless otherwise mentioned, the events below were gleaned from Wilma, David. ''Kitsap County -- Thumbnail History'', [http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7864 History Link.org] Essay 7864. | ||
*The first residents of the land and islands between Puget Sound and Hood Canal were called Suquamish. | |||
*1792 May - British Royal Navy Captain George Vancouver mapped Puget Sound . | |||
*1850 - The big trigger to white settlement on the Kitsap Peninsula came with the California Gold Rush. | |||
*1855 - Washington Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens persuaded the tribes to sign the Point No Point and Point Elliott treaties, in which they ceded their lands to the United States. | |||
*1857 July 13 - Slaughter County was officially formed and Port Madison became the county seat. Voters changed the name to Kitsap County. | |||
*1880s - The United States government chose Port Orchard as the site of a repair facility to help support naval operations in the Pacific Ocean. | |||
==== Land and Property ==== | ==== Land and Property ==== | ||