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Smallpox Bay

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Smallpox Bay is a bay on the west side of San Juan Island in the U.S. state of Washington.[1]

Smallpox Bay was named for the fact that a group of indigenous victims of the 1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic died there and their corpses burned by US officers.[2][3]

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