About Bremerton, Washington

Bremerton is a city of 43,505 people in Kitsap County, on Point Turner about 15 miles west of Seattle. In 1877 Ambrose Barkley Wyckoff, a young lieutenant mapping upper Puget Sound, saw Sinclair Inlet as a home for the Navy and spent years pushing for a base there. Two Seattle men, William Bremer and Henry Hensel, guessed that a base would need a town beside it. In February 1891 they bought nearly 170 acres of waterfront, paying almost $200 for each acre, then sold 81 acres to Wyckoff at the Navy's limit of $50 an acre.

The partners lost over $12,000 on paper, but they kept the land inland and on the point. On December 10, 1891, Bremer filed a 25-acre plat for a town he named after himself. He gave or sold land cheaply for schools and churches and paid for the first wharf. The Panic of 1893 slowed the base and the town until Wyckoff, by then retired, rallied Seattle's Chamber of Commerce in 1899 and Congress raised funding. The yard's workforce grew from under 150 to over 600, and voters made Bremerton a city on October 2, 1901.

“There is not in the world nor could there be a harbour superior to Port Orchard”
Lt. Charles Wilkes, 1841
  • Give 'em hell, HarryOn the morning of June 10, 1948, President Harry S. Truman spoke to a large crowd on Pacific Avenue from the Elks Club balcony. Local legend says a man there was the first to shout "Give 'em hell, Harry!" Newspapers of the day reported the shout as "Lay it on, Harry!" instead, but a bronze plaque on the building's corner still claims the spot. That same day Truman attended Olympic Junior College's first commencement and received its first honorary degree.
  • The saloon fight of 1904In November 1902 the Navy's Assistant Secretary, Charles Darling, sent all repair work to Mare Island in California, citing reports of prostitution, opium houses and robberies of sailors on the Bremerton waterfront. Mayor Alvyn Croxton wanted every saloon closed, and three council members fought him. Croxton won, and in June 1904 the council revoked all liquor licenses, so Darling made the yard a port of call again. Within two years the saloons were back.
  • Hammerhead Crane No. 28Finished at the shipyard in April 1933, the crane stands 250 feet tall and can lift 250 tons. It was one of the largest in the nation, and it still rises over the Bremerton skyline.
  • Home of the Mighty MoThe battleship USS Missouri, where Japan signed the surrender that ended World War II, joined the reserve fleet at the shipyard in 1955. For 30 years hundreds of thousands of visitors walked her surrender deck. She was recommissioned in 1985, and although local leaders fought through the mid-1990s to bring her home as a museum, the Navy gave her to Pearl Harbor in 1998.

Find your street

Names on the Bremerton map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks11

  • East Bremerton
  • Manette
  • Bremerton Watershed
  • Ueland Tree Farm
  • Bremerton Junction
  • Charleston
  • Madrona Point
  • Marine Drive
  • Sheridan
  • Sheridan Park
  • West Park

Streets and roads125

  • Kitsap Way
  • Burwell Street
  • Wheaton Way
  • Warren Avenue
  • Farragut Avenue
  • First Street
  • Perry Avenue Northeast
  • Kean Street
  • Sylvan Way
  • North Wycoff Avenue
  • West Belfair Valley Road
  • Sixth Street
  • Eleventh Street
  • Northeast Sheridan Road
  • West Werner Road
  • Southwest Lake Flora Road
  • Ninth Street
  • Fifth Street
  • 13th Street
  • Austin Drive
  • 15th Street
  • Harlow Drive
  • Fourth Street
  • Eighth Street
  • North Lafayette Avenue
  • Southwest Barney White Road
  • Callahan Drive
  • Auto Center Way
  • Lebo Boulevard
  • Chester Avenue
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  • Almira Drive
  • High Avenue
  • Trenton Avenue
  • Park Avenue
  • Olding Road
  • Price Road
  • Nipsic Avenue
  • Lakehurst Drive
  • Schley Boulevard
  • Shore Drive
  • Rodgers Street
  • Airport Way
  • South Shore Road
  • Snyder Avenue
  • Winfield Avenue
  • Pacific Avenue
  • Carr Boulevard
  • Riddell Road
  • Pearl Street
  • Ohio Avenue
  • Fir Avenue
  • Lyle Avenue
  • Peary Road
  • West Street
  • Dewey Street
  • Preble Street
  • Oyster Bay Avenue
  • Washington Avenue
  • Union Avenue
  • Baker Heights Lp
  • Shorewood Drive
  • Rainier Avenue
  • Naval Avenue
  • Campus Parkway
  • Petersville Road Northeast
  • Osprey Circle
  • Cherry Avenue
  • Ford Avenue
  • Sinclair Way
  • West Kitsap Lake Drive
  • East Phinney Bay Drive
  • Linden Street
  • East 31st Street
  • East 16th Street
  • Halverson Avenue
  • Rickey Road
  • Wright Avenue
  • Harry Earl Road
  • Clare Avenue
  • Minard Road West
  • Hanford Avenue
  • Hollis Street
  • Reagan Avenue
  • 24th Street
  • Lilac Lane
  • Mill Road
  • Bayview Drive
  • Boone Road
  • Northlake Way Northwest
  • Bertha Avenue
  • Tracyton Beach Road Northwest
  • Madrona Point Drive
  • Corbet Drive Northwest
  • Veneta Avenue
  • Robin Avenue
  • Bremerton Boulevard
  • Seringa Avenue
  • Manette Bridge
  • Dora Avenue
  • Holman Street
  • Cole Avenue
  • Lake Drive
  • Taft Avenue
  • Cedar Grove Street
  • Lansing Avenue
  • Coontz Street
  • Pitt Avenue
  • Werner Road
  • Southwest Imperial Way
  • Pine Road Northeast
  • Anderson Hill Road Southwest
  • Russell Road
  • 19th Street
  • West McKenna Falls Road
  • Imperial Way Southwest
  • Myers Road
  • Higbee Road
  • Wilmont Street
  • Sereno Circle Drive
  • Tik Place
  • Maple Avenue
  • Bye Road
  • Meade Avenue
  • Bryan Avenue
  • 25th Street

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