| 1852 |
Nova Scotia sea captain William Renton arrives in Puget Sound and mounts two failed attempts to build a sawmill. |
| 1864 |
Captain Renton purchases land on Bainbridge Island and founds the Port Blakely Mill Company. |
| 1874 |
Captain Renton takes on new partners, starts a stagecoach line, builds the Bainbridge Hotel, and upgrades the mill. |
| 1882 |
The Port Blakely Mill Company builds a railroad to haul huge logs from Mason County. |
| 1888 |
The Port Blakely mill is destroyed by fire. Renton rebuilds and installs a sprinkler system. |
| 1903 |
The Port Blakely Mill Company is purchased by Ned Skinner and Jack Eddy. |
| 1907 |
The Port Blakely mill is destroyed by fire a second time. |
| 1923 |
Skinner and Eddy dissolve their partnership. The Eddy family retains the mill and the forestland. |
| 1925 |
As part of his research into forest management, James G. Eddy founds what today is known as the Institute of Forest Genetics in Northern California. |
| 1946 |
The Eddy family expands its investment in forest land and implements intensive forest management on a sustained yield basis. |
| 1962 |
The Port Blakely Mill Company creates a real estate subsidiary called Renton Village Company. |
| 1985 |
The Port Blakely Mill Company becomes The Port Blakely Tree Farms. |
| 1987 |
Port Blakely sells its interest in Renton Village Company. |
| 1990 |
Port Blakely creates a new real estate subsidiary called Port Blakely Communities. |
| 1993 |
Port Blakely creates Blakely Pacific, Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary that manages working forests in New Zealand. |
