Indianola Kitsap County, Washington


Mapped Location

Indianola: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

 

Information

General information on Indianola

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Indianola

A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named

Name Description
Indianola Official

 

Related Catalog Titles

A Bibliography for Indianola, Kitsap County, Washington

Indianola a community memoir by Sarah M. Berry, Joan R. Henderson, Indianola Beach Improvement Club History Committee

Authored by Sarah M. Berry and Joan R. Henderson alongside the Indianola Beach Improvement Club History Committee, Indianola: A Community Memoir chronicles the evolution of the historic waterfront enclave on Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula. The book traces the area’s transformation from an indigenous gathering place and a 20th-century mosquito-fleet resort destination into a tight-knit, fiercely protective seasonal and year-round community. Drawing on archival photographs, diaries, and local records, the text preserves the distinct social traditions and ferry-dependent isolation that shaped generations of cabin owners and residents. A keen insight drawn from the work is how recreational enclaves foster a unique brand of communal preservation; by relying on shared infrastructure like community docks and improvement clubs, residents turned their collective isolation into a deliberate tool for shielding their waterfront heritage from rapid commercial overdevelopment.

128 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 x 27 cm

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Last updated: 2008-03-21