Reconnaissance of Port Gamble (Non-Colored) 1856 U.S. Coast Survey
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Sitting at the mouth of the Hood Canal this map depicts the waters of Port Gamble. Writing in her book Place Names of the Pacific Northwest Coast, Lynn Middleton share how Port Gamble was named, "Named by the Wilkes Expedition in 1841 after Lieutenant Robert Gamble who was wounded by the bursting of the bow gun on the United States frigate President during a battle with the Belvidere, on June 23, 1812. For time it was called "Teekalet", an Indian word meaning "brightness of the noonday sun" because the sun at noon shines with peculiar splendor on the sands of the bay" (86). Both maps are identical in their visuals but one maps has a backing other does not.
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