Smallpox Bay is a bay on the west side of San Juan Island in the U.S. state of Washington.[1]
Smallpox Bay was named for the fact that a group of indigenous victims of the 1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic died there and their corpses burned by US officers.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Smallpox Bay
- ^ Meany, Edmond S. (1923). Origin of Washington geographic names. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 276.
- ^ Humphreys, Brianna. "Smallpox Bay: The dark history of a lovely recreational area". Island Histories. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
48°32′28″N 123°09′36″W / 48.5412092°N 123.1599073°W
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