Bremerton Wants Charleston to Annex, (Like the Wolf and Lamb)
From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: Charleston was a city that used to exist just to the southwest of Bremerton. The settlement was still young when talk of the two cities merging first came up, given their mutual interest in the Naval shipping area. The book Kitsap County History (1977) presents a detailed chronology of Charleston, ending in December 1927, when voters decided in favor of consolidation. One person who almost…