Here we map and provide documents for neighborhoods where racial restrictive covenants were imposed in the decades when they were legal. Most restrictions in Bremerton and Kitsap County date from 1926 to 1948 and covered a large percentage of subdivisions developed in that period. We have documented more than 2,000 restricted properties in 39 subdivisions. Do not assume that areas without circles were unrestricted. Neighborhoods without covenants often practiced racial exclusion by other means. And the practice extended throughout the county. In 1940, Kisap's population of 44,387 included only 118 Black people and 935 Asian and Indigenous Americans. The county's population surged during World War II and after, doubling to 84,176 by 1960, with the number of non-white residents growing to 3,020, still less than 4% of the total.
The map below is still in progress. For a searchable map of individual properties go to our Kitsap parcels map. Or trace the changing racial demography by census tracts 1980-2020.
Click the link to see a pdf copy of a restrictive document for each subdivision. There are three types of documents. Some subdivisions were restricted in the original plat; some in covenants (CCR) that applied to the full subdivision. In other cases the developer/seller included the restrictions in deeds of sale.
| City | Subdivision/plat | Restriction | Properties Covered | Document Type |
| Bainbridge Island | Arrow Point Beach | This property or any portion thereof, shall not be at any time transferred to or temporarily or permanently occupied by anyone not of the Caucasian race. | 33 | Plat |
| Bainbridge Island | Blakely Beach Div 2 | No portion of the above property shall be sold, conveyed, leased to, or occupied by, a person or persons other than of the Caucasian race, except that a domestic servant of persons than residing upon the said property shall be allowed thereon in connection with his employment. | 22 | Deed |
| Bainbridge Island | Madison Beach | All rights of ownership and residence are restricted to those of the Caucasian Race. | 15 | Deed |
| Bremerton | Broadview | No persons of any race other than the White or Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or any lot, except that this Covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant. | 100 | CCR |
| Bremerton | Eldorado Park Beach | The purchaser, his heirs, successors or assigns shall never lease, sell or rent to, or permit the premises herein sold to be occupied or owned by any person of any race other than what is known as the "White Race," and in the event this clause is ever broken siad property shall immediately revert to the seller, its successors or assigns. | 16 | Deed |
| Bremerton | Harlow | No persons of any race other than the Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or any lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant | 56 | CCR |
| Bremerton | Hermanson's Addition | No persons of any race other than the Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or any lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant | 14 | CCR |
| Bremerton | Hollywood | No persons of any race other than the Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or any lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant | 24 | CCR |
| Bremerton | J.W. Bryan's Second Addition CCR | Only persons of the Caucasian race shall ever be allowed to purchase, hold, own, have or lease said property or any part thereof. | 27 | CCR |
| Bremerton | John Jensen's | That no person of other than the Caucasian Race shall be allowed to purchase, own or lease said property or any part thereof. | 22 | CCR |
| Bremerton | Maple Forest | That no persons other than the Caucasian race shall be allowed to purchase, lease or occupy the above described property or any part thereof except as caretaker or servant. | 6 | CCR |
| Bremerton | Olympic Manor Subdivision | No persons of any race other than the Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or any lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant | 70 | CCR |
| Bremerton | Olympic Park CCR | That no persons of other than the Caucasian Race shall be allowed to purchase, own or lease said property or any part thereof. | 49 | CCR |
| Bremerton | Price's Valley Tracts | Ownership and occupancy of property in this plat shall be restricted to person or persons of the Caucasian race. | 50 | Plat |
| Bremerton | Shephard Addition CCR | Only persons of the Caucasian race shall ever be allowed to purchase, hold, own, have or lease said property or any part thereof. | 23 | CCR |
| Bremerton | Sherman Heights Addition CCR | No part of said blocks shall be sold, conveyed, rented, or leased to any person not of the White or Caucasian race, and not part thereof shall be occupied or be permitted to be used or occupied, by any person not of the White or Caucasian race, except as are in the employ of residents or owners of said lots. | 118 | CCR |
| Bremerton | The Cedars | Said properties shall not be sold, leased, or let or occupied to or by others than of the Caucasian races. | 27 | CCR |
| Bremerton | The Highlands | No persons of any race other than the Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or any lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent the occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant. | 218 | CCR |
| Bremerton | Urban's Addition to the City of Bremerton CCR | Only persons of the Caucasian race shall ever be allowed to purchase, hold, own, have or lease said property or any part thereof. | 24 | CCR |
| Bremerton | View Ridge Addition | No persons of any race other than the Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or any lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant | 56 | CCR |
| Bremerton | Wischhoefer Addition | No persons of any race other than the Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or any lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant. | 37 | CCR |
| Burley | Horseshoe Lake Home Tracts | Only persons of the Caucasian race shall ever be allowed to purchase, hold, own, or have or lease said property or any plat thereof | 53 | Deed |
| East Bremerton | Adam's Replat | No persons of any race other than the White or Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or any lot, except that this Covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant. | 24 | CCR |
| Erlands Point-Kitsap Lake | Saulsberry Villa Tracts | Said premises shall not at any time be leased, sold, conveyed, or occupied by any person other than one of the Caucasian or white race. | 13 | Deed |
| Navy Yard City | Bremerton Heights | No persons of any race other than the Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or any lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent the occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant. | 40 | Agreement |
| Navy Yard City | Navy Yard City | No persons of any race other than the Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or any lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent the occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant. | 26 | CCR |
| Navy Yard City | Ole Hanson's Navy Yard | No persons of any race other than the White or Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or any lot, except that this Covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant. | 50 | CCR |
| Port Orchard | Railroad Addition | This property is sold on the strict reservation that it shall never be sold or rented to anyone of negro ancestry. | 3 | Deed |
| Poulsbo | Island Lake Park | No part of the premises shall be used for any purpose contrary to the law, nor be occupied by any person not of the Caucasian or white race. | 908 | Deed |
| Poulsbo | Island Lake Park Division 2 | No part of of the premises shall be used for any purpose contrary to the law, nor be occupied by any person not of the Caucasian or white race | 15 | Deed |
| Rocky Point | Cartier Heights | The grantee, by accepting this Warranty Deed, does hereby agree than no time, directly or indirectly, shall this property be sold, conveyed, rented or leased, in whole or in part, to any person or persons not of the White or Caucasian race. No person other than that of the White or Caucasian race shall be permitted to occupy any portion of this lot of any building thereon except as a domestic servant actually employed by a white occupant of such lot or building. | 2 | Deed |
| Rocky Point | Wildwood Addition | Ownership and occupancy of property in this plat shall be restricted to person or persons of the Caucasian race only, except in the capacity of servant when they shall be domiciled with an owner or tenant. | 25 | Plat |
| Seabeck | Point Misery | Said property shall not be conveyed, sold, rented or otherwise disposed of, in whole or in part, or be occupied by any person or persons except of a white race; provided, however, that this provision shall not prevent a servant of any lawful owner or occupant of said property from residing therein as an incident to his employment. | 3 | Deed |
| Suquamish | Chief Seattle Park | Ownership and occupancy of property in this plat shall be restricted to person or persons of the Caucasian race. | 131 | Plat |
| Tracyton | Harkins Addition | The above property cannot be sold by grantee, his successor in interest, except to someone of the White race... | 36 | Deed |
| Panther Lake Tracts | Said property shall not be conveyed, sold, rented or otherwise disposed of, in whole or in part, or be occupied by any person or persons except of a white race; provided, however, that this provision shall not prevent a servant of any lawful owner or occupant of said property from residing therein as an incident to his employment. | 1 | Deed | |
| Pleasant Beach Tracts | Not to rent or sell said premises to other than white persons | 2 | Deed |
