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Seabeck is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in western Kitsap County, Washington, a former mill town on the southeastern shore of Hood Canal, about 15 miles northwest of Bremerton.

The name Seabeck comes from the Twana word /ɬqábaqʷ/, built from elements meaning "far," "smooth or calm," and "water."

Seabeck was founded in 1856 by Marshall Blinn and William Adams, doing business as the Washington Mill Company, to cut lumber for booming Gold Rush–era California.

The mill town boomed: a second mill and a company shipyard followed, and by 1876 more than 400 people lived in Seabeck, which had two general stores, two hotels, and four saloons.

The Washington Mill Company's Seabeck shipyard built at least seven vessels between 1872 and 1884, including the tug Richard Holyoke and the sailing ship Retriever.

In August 1886 a spark from that same ship, the Retriever, started a fire that destroyed both mills; most residents left for other mill towns such as Port Hadlock, and Seabeck became a virtual ghost town.

In 1914 Laurence Colman bought the old townsite and revived it as a retreat for YMCA and YWCA groups; its surviving 1850s–60s buildings now form the Seabeck Conference Center, whose 90 acres were deeded to a nonprofit corporation in 1936.

The Seabeck Conference Center has hosted the Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind's annual deaf-blind retreat for more than thirty years, drawing visitors from across the nation and the world.

The western part of the CDP holds the 88-acre Scenic Beach State Park, which began as the Emel family's 1911 homesite before becoming a resort and then a state park for boating, camping, and picnicking.

Seabeck first appeared as a census-designated place in the 2010 census with 1,105 residents, and its population rose slightly to 1,143 at the 2020 census.