Puget Sound · WA

Bremerton

A Navy yard town on Sinclair Inlet.

Population
43,505 (2020 census)
Founded
1891
Incorporated
1901

Then

  1. 1891

    William Bremer founds the town and sells 190 acres to the Navy for the Puget Sound Navy Yard.

  2. 1901

    Bremerton incorporates on October 15.

  3. 1955

    The battleship USS Missouri joins the reserve fleet here. It leaves for Pearl Harbor in 1998.

Now

Car ferries reach Seattle in about an hour. This place spans the Kitsap Peninsula's inlets, from Dyes Inlet and Port Orchard to Port Gamble and Hood Canal.

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