Editing Bainbridge Island, Washington (section)

== History ==
For thousands of years,<ref name="suquamish.nsn.us">{{Cite web |url=https://suquamish.nsn.us/home/about-us/history-culture/#tab-id-1 |title=History & Culture – The Suquamish Tribe |website=suquamish.nsn.us |language=en-US |access-date=August 18, 2018}}</ref> members of the [[Suquamish]] people and their ancestors lived on the land now called Bainbridge Island.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=Jay |last2=Ruby |first2=Robert H. |last3=Brown |first3=John A. |date=April 1987 |title=A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest |journal=The Western Historical Quarterly |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=205 |doi=10.2307/969592 |issn=0043-3810 |jstor=969592}}</ref> There were nine villages on the island; these included winter villages at [[Port Madison, Bainbridge Island, Washington|Port Madison]], [[Battle Point, Bainbridge Island, Washington|Battle Point]], Point White, Lynwood Center, [[Port Blakely, Bainbridge Island, Washington|Port Blakely]], and Eagle Harbor, as well as summer villages at Manzanita, Fletcher Bay, and [[Rolling Bay, Bainbridge Island, Washington|Rolling Bay]].<ref name="suquamish.nsn.us" />

In 1792, English explorer Captain [[George Vancouver]] spent several days with his ship [[HMS Discovery (1789)|HMS ''Discovery'']] anchored off Restoration Point at the southern end of Bainbridge Island while boat parties surveyed other parts of [[Puget Sound]]. Vancouver spent a day exploring [[Rich Passage]], [[Port Orchard]], and [[Sinclair Inlet]]. He failed to find [[Agate Passage]], and so his maps show Bainbridge Island as a peninsula. Vancouver named Restoration Point on May 29, the anniversary of the [[English Restoration]], in honor of [[Charles II of England|King Charles II]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Roberts |first=John E. |title=A Discovery Journal: George Vancouver's First Survey Season – 1792 |year=2005 |publisher=Trafford Publishing |isbn=978-1-4120-7097-3 |pages=57–60, 67}}</ref>

In 1841, [[US Navy]] Lieutenant [[Charles Wilkes]] visited the island while surveying the [[Pacific Northwest]]. Lt. Wilkes named the island after Commodore [[William Bainbridge]], commander of the [[frigate]] [[USS Constitution|USS ''Constitution'']] in the [[War of 1812]]. Settlers originally used Bainbridge Island as a center for the [[logging]] and [[shipbuilding]] industries with the island being [[Clearcutting|clearcut]] at least two times in its history.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Duncan |first=Don |date=May 24, 1990 |title=Logging Legacy &ndash; Hoquiam's Timber Families Span The History Of The Lumber Industry In Washington |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19900524&slug=1073661 |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=The Seattle Times}}</ref> The island was known for huge and accessible cedars, which were especially in demand for ships' masts. The original county seat of Kitsap County was at [[Port Madison]] on the island's north end.

In 1855, the Suquamish tribe relinquished their claim to Bainbridge Island by signing the [[Treaty of Point Elliott|Point Elliott Treaty]].<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web |url=https://suquamish.nsn.us/home/about-us/history-culture/#tab-id-3 |title=History & Culture – The Suquamish Tribe |website=suquamish.nsn.us |language=en-US |access-date=August 18, 2018}}</ref> The Suquamish agreed to cede all of their territory (which included Bainbridge Island) to the United States in exchange for a reservation at Port Madison and fishing rights to Puget Sound.<ref name="ReferenceA" />

[[File:Bainbridge Island (Wash.) evacuation -- Group of young evacuees wave from special train as it leaves Seattle with Island evacuees, March 30, 1942.jpg|thumb|A group of [[Japanese-American]] residents of Bainbridge Island wave the American flag and give the victory sign as they are forcibly sent to an [[Internment of Japanese Americans|internment camp]], March 30, 1942.]]

The first generation of Japanese immigrants, the [[Issei]], came in 1883. During [[World War II]], [[Japanese-American]] residents of Bainbridge Island were the first to be sent to [[Japanese-American internment|internment camps]], an event commemorated by the [[Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial]], which opened in 2011.<ref name=seelye>{{citation |last=Seelye |first=Katherine Q. |title=A Wall to Remember an Era's First Exiles |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 5, 2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/us/06internment.html?_r=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoors/as-national-park-service-turns-100-seattle-ranger-personifies-change/ |title=As National Park Service turns 100, Seattle ranger personifies change |newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]] |first=Glenn |last=Nelson |date=August 21, 2016 |access-date=November 22, 2017 |quote=...the Japanese American Exclusion Memorial, built, maintained and supported by several community groups on Bainbridge Island. It gains its imprimatur as a satellite of the Park Service's Minidoka National Historic Site in Idaho. The Park Service owns none of the Bainbridge property, but Beall (superintendent of Seattle's National Park units) kicks in $14,000 for a seasonal ranger.}}</ref> They were held by the US government through the duration of the war for fear of [[espionage]]. A [[High-frequency direction finding]] (HFDF) station was established here by the Navy during the war. These radio intercept sites along the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]] were used to track Japanese warships and merchant marine vessels as far away as the Western Pacific. The other West Coast stations were in California at [[Point Arguello]], [[Point St. George|Point Saint George]], [[Farallon Islands]] and [[San Diego]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Menzel|first=Sewall|title=The Pearl Harbor Secret: Why Roosevelt Undermined the U.S. Navy|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2020|isbn= 978-1-4408-7586-1|pages=41}}</ref>

Since the 1960s, Bainbridge Island has become an increasingly affluent [[Commuter town|bedroom community]] of [[Seattle]], a 35-minute ride away on the [[Washington State Ferries]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Ammons|first=David|date=May 3, 1998|title=Islanders See Grounds for Concern in Local Starbucks|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-03-mn-45816-story.html|access-date=November 22, 2017}}</ref>

The city has occupied the entire space of Bainbridge Island since February 28, 1991, when the {{convert|1.5 |sqmi|adj=mid}} city of [[Winslow, Washington|Winslow]] (incorporated on August 9, 1947), annexed the rest of the island<ref>{{cite news |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19901107/1102735/bainbridge-island-incorporation----bainbridge-apparently-oks-annexation-into-winslow |title=Bainbridge Island Incorporation &ndash; Bainbridge Apparently Oks Annexation Into Winslow |newspaper=[[Seattle Times]] |department=Business |first=Carlton |last=Smith |date=November 7, 1990 |access-date=November 22, 2017}}</ref><ref name="LAT 1993-08-15">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-15-tr-24029-story.html |title=Bainbridge Island: A Seattle Retreat |first=John |last=McKinney |date=August 15, 1993 |access-date=November 22, 2017 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> after a narrowly passed November 1990 referendum.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Winslow changes its name to Bainbridge Island on November 7, 1991. - HistoryLink.org|url=https://historylink.org/File/8278|access-date=2021-06-13|website=historylink.org}}</ref> It officially remained the city of Winslow for several months, until November 7, 1991, at which time the city of Winslow was renamed the city of Bainbridge Island.<ref name=":0" />