Liberty Bay

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Liberty Bay is a bay of the Kitsap Peninsula in western Washington state, USA. It is an arm of Port Orchard.

Poulsbo lies at the north end of the bay.

Its official name is Dogfish Bay, due to a high population of dogfish. According to the Kitsap Peninsula Visitor and Convention Bureau's Web site: "Despite pleas of Poulsbo residents, the Legislature in 1893 and 1899 refused to change the official title of Dogfish Bay to Liberty Bay. The present name was adopted through general usage. The original name was a location tie-in to the bayshore plant Harry Drescott operated in the 1860s. It used dogfish oil to grease the logs that made up lumber camp skid roads."

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