Maritime Place Names – Inland Washington Waters
Posted April 14, 2013 at 5:53 am by Tim Dustrude
The San Juan Historical Museum is pleased to welcome author Richard Blumenthal for a book signing and discussion. MARITIME PLACE NAMES Inland Washington Waters is a historical text on Washington state maritime place names. It includes every named island, bay, point, inlet, pass, harbor, channel, strait, canal, passage, peninsula, sound, shoal and rock identified on current nautical charts. Variants and more obscure local names are frequently included as well as historical names that did not stand the test of time. The manuscript generally identifies the individual who named the place, when, why and for whom. It also identifies the chart where the name first appeared and the early settlement history of each place.
Heavily annotated, the manuscript makes extensive use of quotes of the observations from our earliest explorers to document their reasons for various names and to provide readers an impression of what Puget Sound country looked like 150-200 years ago.
About the author
Author Richard Blumenthal
Richard Blumenthal began boating on Lake Washington at age five. Throughout his childhood, he cruised in the San Juans with family, learning of the secrets held by the numerous islands. Eventually, he became more interested in local maritime history. He researched the journals of early explorers and transcribed the material to get a better sense of their efforts, the hardships they faced and the places they visited. Some of these journals are available in his other books The Early Exploration of Inland Washington Waters, With Vancouver in Inland Washington Waters and Charles Wilkes and the Exploration of Inland Washington Waters.
Suggest donation is $5 and museum members are admitted at no charge.
San Juan Historical Museum Resource Center
Saturday, April 20, 6:30 pm
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