Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Silverdale Author

SILVERDALE, Wash. - Jan. 28, 2014 - PRLog -- From the Suquamish tribe that first settled in the area, to William Littlewood, who was the first settler in the Clear Creek area and finally to the modern day images of Silverdale as a shopping mecca, Images of America: Silverdale takes readers through a visual history of the area.  The book highlights the industries that helped spur growth in the area, including the principal industry, logging; which evolved into chicken ranching and farming, aided by the first in a series of cooperative stores.

This pictorial history also includes information on the steamboats of the Mosquito Fleet, the first store in the area built by. W.T. Gaffner, the poultry industry in the area and how Silverdale organized the first fire department in the county.  The Kitsap County Historical Society has completed this book, the first published monograph on Silverdale, in hopes of shedding light on the area’s past in order to preserve its history for future generations.

Join the Author for a Book Signing!

Where:  Costco

10000 Mickelberry Rd. NW, Silverdale WA 98383

When: Saturday, February 8^th, 2014; 11:00 a.m. –1:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online (http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9781467130134/Silverdale).

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town?  Visit http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/.

Silverdale

by Kitsap County Historical Society

Images of America Series

128 pages/ softcover

Available: February 3,  2014