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Agate Pass or Agate Passage is a high-current strait in Puget Sound connecting Port Madison and Port Orchard. It lies between Bainbridge Island and the mainland of the Kitsap Peninsula near Suquamish. 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.
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