Experience
Current Exhibits
An Island Story
For a small island, Bainbridge has big stories to share. The Japanese American Exclusion in WWII, the most productive sawmill in the world, the mosquito fleet that served 30 small communities, the teen music scene, and the invention of Pickleball are some of the things you are bound to uncover.
Map of the Oregon Territory, Wilkes Expedition 1841
Vaughn Drag Saw, Zenhichi Harui and friends, Island Center, ca. 1940
Second Mill at Port Blakely, 1888 – 1907
Retorts for Creosoting Logs Pacific Creosote Company, Bill Point, ca. early 1900’s
Sailing Ships in Eagle Harbor
Ferry Hyak
Ferry Kalakala
Marine Railway at Hall Brothers Shipyard, Winslow 1903
Ship under construction on Port Madison beach
Hall Brothers Shipyard, Port Blakely
Strawberry Farms
Koura Strawberry Farm
Strawberry Cannery
Fort Ward Radio school
Barrage Balloons, 1942
Winslow Shipyard Workers
Nakamura Family Leaving Home
Arrival of the ferry Kehloken
Kitamoto FamilyHer Vote. Her Story.
Ratified 100 years ago, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. constitution restored women’s legal right to vote. Many women—and men—organized, protested, penned pamphlets, endured prison, and braved hunger strikes in support of women’s suffrage.
For many years, the 19th Amendment mostly benefited middle and upper class, white women. Additional laws and amendments were needed to assure equal voting rights and access for all women and men.
Millenium Quilt, 2000
Model Voting Machine
2016 Voting Percentages
Maxine Johnson, 2016