J. Nicholas Hein was one Kitsaper who claimed his homestead in 1889, proved up, and his family lived there until just before the homestead and its nearby Lake (Hein’s Lake) became part of Kitsap County’s watershed. Tinsmiths, farmers, plumbers, Shipyard workers, County officials, Charleston business owners, innkeepers during Prohibition, a founding member of the Kitsap[...]