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The traditional winter village of the Suquamish people was located on Agate Pass. It was the site of Old Man House , the largest longhouse on Puget Sound . Agate Pass was unknown to non-native people until it was discovered by the Wilkes Expedition in 1841 ; before that time, Bainbridge Island had been believed to be a peninsula. It was named by U.S. Navy Lt. Charles Wilkes in honor of one of the members of the expedition, Alfred Thomas Agate . In 1950 the Agate Pass Bridge was built, connecting Bainbridge Island to the Kitsap Peninsula for the first time. The bridge is listed on the National Register Of Historic Places . The bridge carries the traffic of Washington State Highway 305 . EXTERNAL LINKS
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