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History of Port Angeles
In the early 1790s, Spain was forced to pull out of the Olympic Peninsula. She ceded all of her enormous frustrated fortune seekers moving north after California’s gold rush in 1849. In 1852, a U.S. coastal survey first
claims throughout the New World to France in 1800. The area that would be Port Angeles lay dormant for the charted Port Angeles, naming it “False Dungeness.” By then, Robert Fulton’s invention, the wood burning steam
next 50 years, its only inhabitants the Indians. Unbeknown to these residents of this isolated region, changes engine, was allowing Puget Sound boats to ease into almost any bay or inlet - a feat impossible for sailboats.
were taking place. Napoleon Bonaparte was restructuring Europe, and Thomas Jefferson and others were Steamboats, more than any other technological achievement, opened the door to Port Angeles and the Peninsula.
molding the feisty young nation of the United States into a giant (it tripled in size with the Louisiana Purchase Washington was officially declared a territory of the United States in 1853. Clallam County was formed one
in 1803). The Peninsula’s residents would soon find out how anxious the citizens of the United States were to year later. With all this activity taking place in a territory they knew to be rightfully theirs, the Peninsula’s Indians
push westward in search of land. were disturbed. During 1854 and 1855, it is estimated that, in six treaties, Indians in the Pacific Northwest gave
The United States received a strong claim to the Northwest when Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark up property rights to 64 million acres.
took their overland expedition to the Pacific Ocean in 1804. However, the “Oregon Country” (all the land from the The 1855 Point-No-Point Treaty, negotiated by Stevens and Lkallam Chief Chetzemoka (also known as The
Columbia River northward) still lay open to settlement by both England and the United States, and both claimed it. Duke of York), claimed for the settlers a tract of land totaling hundreds of thousands of acres and reserved for
Land-hungry Americans began settling throughout the territory when two major U.S. expeditions were dispatched the tribe a total of 3,840 acres at the head of Hood Canal. This treaty also prohibited Chetzemoka’s tribesmen
to the Puget Sound. The United States Census showed five years later that over 1,000 inhabitants were living from trading with their neighbors on Vancouver Island, required them to accept certain medical vaccinations and
north of the Columbia River. Despite valid claims England had made on the Oregon country, it had to face the prohibited the practice of slavery. Congress ratified the Point-No-Point Treaty in 1859. Despite all of this, hostilities
inevitable. In 1846, a treaty with the United States was signed, locking the northern boundary at 49° North between settlers and Indians were rare in Port Angeles, which was populated almost exclusively by bachelors.
Latitude through the center of the strait of Juan de Fuca. The staff of Gordy’s Pizza & Pasta welcomes you to Port Angeles, and we hope you enjoy
With that matter resolved, Port Angeles awakened to the fast-approaching civilization as settlement of the your stay.
Northwest began in earnest. Thousands of people were finding their way into Puget Sound country, many of them

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