请输入您要查询的百科知识:

 

词条 Little Boston, Washington
释义

  1. History

  2. References

  3. External links

{{Infobox settlement
|name = Little Boston
|official_name =
|settlement_type = Unincorporated community
|nickname =
|motto =
|image_skyline =
|imagesize =
|image_caption =
|image_flag =
|image_seal =
|pushpin_map = USA Washington
|pushpin_label_position =
|pushpin_map_caption = Location within the state of Washington
|pushpin_mapsize =
|image_map =
|map_caption = Location within Kitsap county
|image_map1 =
|mapsize1 =
|map_caption1 =
|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = United States
|subdivision_type1 = State
|subdivision_name1 = Washington
|subdivision_type2 = County
|subdivision_name2 = Kitsap
|government_footnotes =
|government_type =
|leader_title =
|leader_name =
|leader_title1 =
|leader_name1 =
|established_title =
|established_date =
|unit_pref = Imperial
|area_footnotes =
|area_magnitude =
|area_total_km2 =
|area_land_km2 =
|area_water_km2 =
|population_as_of = 2000
|population_footnotes =
|population_total =
|population_density_km2 = auto
|timezone = Pacific (PST)
|utc_offset = -8
|timezone_DST = PDT
|utc_offset_DST = -7
|elevation_footnotes =
|elevation_ft =
|coordinates = {{coord|47|51|08|N|122|34|12|W|type:city_region:US-WA|display=inline,title}}
|postal_code_type = ZIP codes
|postal_code =
|area_code =
|blank_name = FIPS code
|blank_info =
|blank1_name = GNIS feature ID
|blank1_info = 1511101[1]
|website =
|footnotes =
}}

Little Boston is community of Port Gamble CDP in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It is located east of the community of Port Gamble, on Port Gamble's harbor. Little Boston is the site of the Port Gamble Indian Reservation, which houses the Port Gamble band of the S'Klallam tribe.

The Port Gamble S’Klallam Reservation consists of {{convert|1340|acre|km2|0}} of land held in trust by the federal government. There is no private land ownership on the reservation. Most of the land is in forest with residential, business, and office areas.

The reservation receives approximately {{convert|20|in|mm}} of rain per year due to its location in the Olympic Mountain rain shadow. The reservation lands rise from the beach to a gently rolling terrain.

Port Gamble Bay is the last bay in Kitsap County that is still open for commercial shellfish harvest. The Tribe has a hatchery on Middle Creek. Bear, deer and other wildlife also live on the reservation.

History

On June 16, 1938,[2] the S'Klallam tribe receives a {{convert|1234|acre|km2|adj=on}} reservation on Port Gamble Bay, which is their historic home.

At the time that the United States organized Oregon Territory in 1848, the S'Klallams lived in villages on the west side of Port Gamble Bay. In the summer of 1853, Josiah Keller arrived by ship to build a sawmill for the Puget Mill Co. He asked the Native Americans to move across the bay to make room for the mill and he offered free lumber for their homes, free firewood, and Christmas gifts. The S'Klallams agreed. Keller's mill prospered and many S'Klallams worked there. Eventually, the Puget Mill Co. and other lumber companies acquired title to all the land around Port Gamble Bay.

The S'Klallams ceded their rights to the land in the treaty of Point No Point on January 26, 1855. Under that agreement, the tribe was supposed to move to a reservation along with the Skokomish. Few S'Klallams were interested in moving. They continued to take their living from the water and the land and they got jobs at the mill.

Little Boston (named by a Yankee sea captain) consisted of frame homes built on the sand spit. Water was carried in a wood trough and residents used diversion boards to direct their share from the flume. The homes stood on stilts because of tides and sanitary facilities consisted of privies over the mudflats connected with wood walkways.

Some individual S'Klallams bought their own land along the bay either for cash or under the Indian Homestead Act. Once the land had been logged, it was of little interest to the logging companies. Much of these titles were lost in the Great Depression when the owners could not pay county taxes.

Under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the U.S. Government purchased land for reservations. The Department of the Interior bought up land from Puget Mill Co. and established the S'Klallam (spelled Clallam) Reservation in 1938. Health officials burned the community of Little Boston because it represented a health hazard, and new homes were built on the reservation.

References

1. ^{{cite gnis|id=1511101|name=Little Boston}}
2. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5509| title=S'Klallam tribe receives a reservation on Port Gamble Bay on June 16, 1938. | year=2007 | publisher=HistoryLink.org | accessdate=2007-05-02}}

External links

  • PortGamble.com
  • Kitsap County Visitor Information
  • Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe
{{Kitsap County, Washington}}

2 : Unincorporated communities in Washington (state)|Unincorporated communities in Kitsap County, Washington

随便看

 

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

 

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/11/11 5:30:17