Blakely Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Washington: the home of
the largest lumber mill on the Pacific Coast during the 1800s.
The robust town that once thrived here housed the Bainbridge Hotel,
a post office, livery stable, company store, and a board walk
for vacationing resort goers, granting leisurely access to nearby
Pleasant Beach visitors.
In the late 1800s, Port Blakely offered boxing
matches, dances, May Fests, and operas, attracting Seattleites
to travel across the Sound by ferry for vacation and entertainment.
In 1888, the mill site burnt to the ground and through
it was re-built, it burned once again in 1907, finally closing in
1922. Until 1933 it was site of the Bainbridge to Seattle ferry
dock which eventually moved further north to Eable Harbor.
Article about the Old Mill, in The Bainbridge
Review, June 7, 2006, by Chad Schuster:MORE>>
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