City of Port Angeles Clallam County, Washington

Name: City of Port Angeles
Address: Washington

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Feature Type: Incorporated

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for City of Port Angeles

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Name	Description
City of Port Angeles	Official
Port Angeles	Official

Origin Notes and History of City of Port Angeles

References to City of Port Angeles that document the origin of its place name

PORT ANGELES, county seat of Clallam County. The name originated with the Spaniards in 1791, Captain Francisco Eliza named the peculiar harbor "Porto de Nuestra Senora de los Angeles; " in 1792, Captains Galliano and Valdes contracted it to "Porto de los Angeles." Captain Vancouver shortened it still further in 1792 and gave the form now in use. In 1852, the United States Coast Survey charted it as "False Dungeness" from its resemblance to New Dungeness nearby. The long sandspit which makes the harbor is called Ediz Hook, probably from Yennis, Clallam Indian word, meaning "good place." See Ediz Hook.

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names

Meany, Edmond S., Origin of Washington Geographic Names, 1923 University of Washington, pp 225-226 | Origin of Washington Geographic Names

A Selected Bibliography of City of Port Angeles, Clallam County, Washington

A compilation of essential readings detailing the history, geography, and culture of the region.

Port Angeles, U.S.A. by John D. McCallum, Lorraine Wilcox Ross , James Warner Bellah (Writer of introduction)

John D. McCallum and Lorraine Wilcox Ross’s Port Angeles, U.S.A. chronicles the pioneer and industrial evolution of a remote maritime settlement strategically sheltered behind the protective, miles-long sand spit of Ediz Hook on the northern coast of the Olympic Peninsula. The narrative maps how the towering, heavily glaciated barrier of the Olympic Mountains and the impenetrable density of the surrounding temperate rainforest initially strangled overland transit, forcing early settlers and massive logging operations to rely entirely on the deep-water harbor and the volatile aquatic highway of the Strait of Juan de Fuca for economic survival. By detailing the transition from an isolated pioneer outpost to a booming, mill-driven seaport, the book illustrates how mastering this unique marine topography and leveraging a natural oceanic breakwater were the absolute prerequisites for establishing a thriving timber metropolis on an otherwise unforgiving coastal frontier.

197 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map (on lining papers), portraits ; 24 cm

Non-circulating [ 1 ]

History · 1st Edition · Wood and Reber, Inc., Seattle, Wash., 1961
Related Catalog Items: City of Port Angeles · Clallam County

By Juan de Fuca's strait pioneering along the northwestern edge of the continent by James G. McCurdy

In this provocative and illuminating book, Marianna Torgovnick explores the psychology of our profound attraction to cultures we call "primitive." Whether located in Africa, the South Pacific, or the American Southwest, the primitive has become synonymous in the Western imagination with a range of emotions and experiences thought to be lost in modern life: reverence for the land and for nature; strong communal bonds; sexual plentitude; and, perhaps most intriguing, and ecstatic sense of connection to the universe and the life force. Torgovnick investigates the numerous ways we have turned toward the primitive out of spiritual hunger for such deeply human experiences - a hunger that could once be satisfied within the West's own mystical traditions but that often no longer can be. Brilliantly encompassing religion, art, psychology, literature, and other aspects of our culture, Primitive Passions offers new insight into our ideas of spirituality and gender, and, ultimately, into the hidden but vital parts of ourselves

312 pages frontispiece (map), illustrations (including portraits, facsimiles) 22 cm

Non-circulating [ 1 ]

History · 1st Edition · Metropolitan Press, Portland, Or., 1937
Related Catalog Items: City of Port Angeles · City of Victoria

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