Haleets
Haleets is a sandstone glacial erratic boulder with inscribed petroglyphs on Bainbridge Island, Washington. The Native American Suquamish Tribe claims the rock, on a public beach at Agate Point on the shore of Agate Passage, as part of their heritage.Photo: Dennis Bratland, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: Boulder on Bainbridge Island, Washington
- Also known as: “Figurehead Rock”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Suquamish Museum and Agate Pass Bridge.
Suquamish Museum
Museum
Photo: DocumentError, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Suquamish Museum preserves and displays relics and records related to the Suquamish Tribe, including artifacts from the Old Man House and the Baba'kwob site. Suquamish Museum is situated 1 mile northwest of Haleets.
Agate Pass Bridge
Bridge
Photo: DVD R W, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Agate Pass Bridge is a structural steel truss cantilever bridge spanning Agate Pass, connecting Bainbridge Island to the Kitsap Peninsula. It was built in 1950, and it replaced a car ferry service which dated from the 1920s. Agate Pass Bridge is situated 1 mile southwest of Haleets.
Frog Rock
Work of art
Photo: Brianhe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Frog Rock is a glacial erratic on Bainbridge Island, Washington. The frog shape is made of two stacked granite boulders, painted by a pair of local residents to resemble a frog on June 6, 1971. Frog Rock is situated 2 miles southeast of Haleets.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Agate Point and Suquamish.
Suquamish
Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Suquamish is a community of 4,100 people on the Kitsap Peninsula in the Puget Sound of Washington state. It is in the Port Madison Indian Reservation, the home of the Suquamish tribe and Chief Seattle.
Haleets
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Kitsap, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.71862° or 47° 43′ 7″ northLongitude
-122.54449° or 122° 32′ 40″ westOpen location code
84VVPF94+C6OpenStreetMap ID
node 10774593445OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q19867453
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