[1] On the west side of inlet, from north to south on the Kitsap Peninsula, the communities included Allyn, Eberhardt Float, Grapeview (Detroit), and Stretch Island.
On Case Inlet, on the east side of Hartstine Island, was the small community of Ballow and also Cowans Landing.
Freight and passengers bound for Vaughn had to be lightered over the sandbar as there was insufficient depth of water to allow a steamboat to pass.
Cowans was killed in a boatyard accident in 1918, when the supports under Lavina gave way, and he was crushed by the hull.
It is reported that in 1923, Glen Harriman, using an ex-navy vessel he renamed Loren (54 ft or 16.5 m) after his daughter, begin making runs three times weekly from Case Inlet to Olympia, with stops at Allyn, Vaughn, and Hartstine and Squaxin islands.