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BACK WHEN: Grant Street School, built for Port Townsend, no longer exists
GRANT STREET GRADE School has disappeared.
Linnea Patrick
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BACK WHEN: A naturalist explores Puget Sound
ALTHOUGH IT IS likely that scientists accompanied the earlier Spanish explorers on their voyages to our area, the…
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BACK WHEN: Quarantine Stations, Part II: The Diamond Point station moves to Point Hudson
Editor’s note: This month’s Jefferson County Back When column is a continuation of last month’s column published June…
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BACK WHEN: Quarantine Stations, Part I: The Federal Marine Quarantine Station for Puget Sound at Diamond Point
AS EARLY AS 1799, the newly formed United States government began to enact laws to reduce the possibility…
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BACK WHEN: Port Townsend celebrates exploration, naming of town by Capt. George Vancouver
CAPT. GEORGE VANCOUVER wrote this about the work he and his crew did May 8, 1792: “The survey…
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BACK WHEN: Opium use rages in 19th century Port Townsend
IT MIGHT SEEM surprising that in late 19th century Jefferson County, as well as in the rest of…
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BACK WHEN: The history of the historians of Jefferson County: Part III
EDITOR’S NOTE: This month’s Jefferson County history column is the third in a series of three about local…
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BACK WHEN: The history of the historians of Jefferson County: Part II
EDITOR’S NOTE: This month’s Jefferson County history column is the second in a series of three about local…
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BACK WHEN: The history of the historians of Jefferson County: Part I
EDITOR’S NOTE: This month’s Jefferson County history column is the first in a series of three about local…
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BACK WHEN: Contagious diseases affect Jefferson County
THE JEFFERSON COUNTY Historical Society Research Center recently added a donation of scrapbooks containing clippings on the variety…
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BACK WHEN: The life and death of Dr. Minor
AN 1889, THANKSGIVING weekend duck hunting trip on Camano and Whidbey islands proved fatal for three men, two…
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BACK WHEN: The Beecher saga concludes
CAPT. HERBERT AND Hattie Beecher’s older daughter, Mary Eunice, first married when she was 18 years old, in…
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BACK WHEN: The Beechers continue life in Port Townsend
THE BEECHER FAMILY continued to live in their Walker Street home in Port Townsend for at least part…
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BACK WHEN: Beecher brings art to the frontier
“ONCE UPON A time in Washington, one woman’s brilliance with a brush brought art to the frontier.”
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BACK WHEN: How the Beechers arrived in Port Townsend
A MARCH 15, 1900, Morning Leader article, filed in the Jefferson County Historical Society Research Center Obituary notebook,…
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BACK WHEN: How Capt. Morgan helped shape Port Townsend
MORGAN HILL IN Port Townsend is named for the man who was one of the city’s earliest property…
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BACK WHEN: The lives, deaths of Dosewallips settlers
ACROSS THE DOSEWALLIPS River from one another, just beyond the bridge, were the homes of Capt. Samuel Clements…
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BACK WHEN: Memories of the Dosewallips found in memoirs
IN HER LATER years, Lillie Christiansen wrote a letter to Ida Bailey in Brinnon describing some of the…
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BACK WHEN: Brinnon becomes a community
THE COMMUNITY OF Brinnon in Jefferson County was slower to develop than settlements farther north.
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BACK WHEN: St. John’s Hospital is worth noting
LISTS OF SIGNIFICANT buildings erected during Port Townsend’s 1888-91 building boom often omit St. John’s Hospital.