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Silverdale is an unincorporated area in Kitsap County that if it were incorporated would be the largest city there. Once a center of agricultural activity because of its prime creekbed farmland it has become the retail, office and hospital center for the entire Kitsap and Olympic Peninsula. It is home to the Kitsap Mall, a regional shopping center with Sears and Macy’s department store anchors, a Borders Bookstore, a farmers market, furniture stores, food outlets, a Costco, Home Depot, chain restaurants, one of two Harrison Hospitals, medical services, government offices, financial and professional services. Silverdale homes are spread out over a wide area from Dyes Inlet looking west to Hood Canal. All Silverdale homes for sale can be found on our Kitsap Real Estate Advisor search page. Homes with a Silverdale address extend form the area around Dyes Inlet and Clear Creek west up to the Apex Airport and even west of there. As with most of the rest of the county Silverdale has a colorful history rooted first with the many tribes that inhabited the area and later with early European immigrants who came to harvest the rich timberland and fish. The Kitsap County Historical Society is an excellent source to read more of the history of the area. Like most of the other Puget Sound harbor communities the area was explored circa 1841 by a Lt. Charles Wilkes. According to the KCHS Wilkes exploration party included a taxidermist named John William Dyes after which the body of water known as Dyes Inlet was named. The logger arrived circa 1854 living with their families on house barges along the shoreline. After harvesting the easily accessible shores they pushed inward with roads and more harvesting establishing cleared land for pastures and farms along the way. These rich bottom lands along Clear Creek are now the site for many Silverdale houses and commercial developments such as the Kitsap Mall which was developed by the real estate development arm of Safeco Insurance in the 1980′s. In recent years there have been efforts to preserve the remaining farmland and develop an increased prominence for local food in Kitsap. The farmers prospered and soon were able to sell their surpluses to markets in Bremerton, Seattle and Tacoma. Docks and transport facilities were developed in the area today known as Old Town Silverdale. Silverdale property owners prospered too and many commercial structures including banks, hotels, cook houses and stores grew up. A good portion of Silverdale Real Estate such as what is now the Kitsap Mall was prime farmland supporting the robust agricultural community that prospered there.