Nov-2017

202 203 BREMERTON, WASHINGTON B remerton,Washington, the largest city in Kit- sap County, is located directly west of Seattle across the Puget Sound on the Kitsap Penin- sula. It is bounded on the southeast and east by Sinclair Inlet and the strait of Port Orchard, re- spectively.The city is divided by the Port Washington Narrows, a strait spanned by two bridges that connect the eastern and western sides of the city.The part of the city northeast of the narrows is referred to as East Bremerton.The city’s southern border is contiguous with Mason County and includes Bremerton National Airport. Bremerton was planned by German immigrant and Seattle entrepreneur William Bremer in 1891.Three years earlier, a U.S.Navy commission determined that Point Turner, between the protected waters of the A CITY’S RENAISSANCE Sinclair and Dyes inlets,would be the best site in the Pa- cific Northwest on which to establish a shipyard. Recog- nizing the large number of workers such a facility would employ, Bremer and his business partner and brother-in- law,Henry Hensel, arranged for the sale of 190 acres to the Navy at $50 per acre.This land became part of the initial footprint of the Puget Sound NavyYard.The City of Bremerton was incorporated on October 15, 1901. At the peak of WorldWar II, the Bremerton area was home to an estimated 80,000 residents due to the heavy AT A GLANCE BREMERTON, WASH. WHAT: A city of approximately 40,500 WHERE: On the Kitsap Peninsula, directly west of Seattle WEBSITE: www.ci.bremerton.wa.us