Captain William Renton founded the Port Blakely mill in 1864 on Bainbridge Island's Blakely Harbor. In the 1880s the mill became the largest sawmill on the Pacific Coast and was a major employer on Bainbridge Island. In 1879 Hall Brothers Shipyard moved its operations to Port Blakely and during this period Renton built houses for the families of mill workers, as well as a bachelor's dormitory and the Blakely Hotel. The train tracks running alongside the houses carried lumber from the mill to the shipyard.
Caption information source: Price, Andrew Jr. Port Blakely: The Community Captain Renton Built. Seattle: Port Blakely Books, 1989; Yockey, Ross and L. Beth Yocky, Responsible to the Earth: The Remarkable History of the Port Blakely Companies. Seattle: Abecedary Press, 2007
ID Number: 1977.6486.68
Date: Circa 1900
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 3.5 x 4.5 in.
Additional Information: View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv61571
Credit: MOHAI, Ziegler and Rankin Families Photographs and Papers, 1977.6486.68
