Hale Passage Timeline

• 14,000 years ago (about)

  Vashon glacier recedes exposing newly formed Puget Sound

1792

1 event

• May 21, 22

  Lt. Peter Puget explores and charts Hale Passage as part of the Vancouver's Voyage of Discovery

1841

2 events

• United States Exporing Expedition, under Lt Charles Wilkes, explores and maps Puget Sound including Hale Passage

  Often referred to the Wilkes Expedition.
• Hale Passage is named Hale's Passage after the Wilkes expedition's ethnologist and philologist Horatio Hale

1853

1 event

• Surveyors surveyed and summarily described features on Fox Island

1856

2 events

• Jan 5

  Chief Leschi and retinue arrive at internment camp on Fox Island
• August

  Governor Stevens renegotiates Medecine Creek treaty with Indians interned on Fox Island.

1857

1 event

• Surveyors surveyed and summarily described features in Warren area, Wollochet Bay, and Grave Island

1867

1 event

• Coast Survey chart shows details of Hale Passage

1926

1 event

• June 11

  Row of wooden Ferris Ships burnt at Minter Creek. (click for full story)

  Lower, unburned portion, of one hull later floats free to become the Shaws Cove Ship Wreck

1988

1 event

• April 29

  Navy submarine USS Sam Houston runs aground on Fox Island's South Shore