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Port Townsend / ˈ t aʊ n z ən d / is a city on the Quimper Peninsula in Jefferson County, Washington, United States.The population was 10,148 at the 2020 United States Census.It is the county seat and only incorporated city of Jefferson County.
The Race to Alaska (R2AK) is an annual 750-mile adventure race from Port Townsend, Washington up the Inside Passage to Ketchikan, Alaska. Any form of boat is allowed, so long as it has no motors. Support crews are not allowed. [1] [2] Nearly half the teams do not make it to Alaska. [3] The record time is 4 days, set in 2016. [4]
April 24, 1973 (314 Polk St. Port Townsend: 3: Henry Bash House: Henry Bash House: May 16, 1985 (718 F St. Port Townsend: 4: Senator William Bishop House and Office
Adventuress was built for John Borden at the Rice Brothers' yard in East Boothbay, Maine, and was designed by B.B. Crowninshield.Borden intended to sail to Alaska to catch a bowhead whale for the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Port Townsend is located at the northeastern tip of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, and developed beginning about 1850 as a strategically placed well-sheltered deep-harbor port at the junction of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Admiralty Inlet, which provide access to Puget Sound. It grew as a major customs point, and as a shipment point for ...
Now, neighbors are scrambling to save whatever they can before their homes fall into the Pacific Ocean. ... Home slides into ocean along Washington Coast. Updated May 9, 2019 at 12:32 PM.
Companies based in Port Townsend, Washington (5 P) This page was last edited on 6 August 2013, at 19:18 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Port Townsend waterfront circa 1890. The large sidewheeler on left is probably Olympian . The Pacific Wharf Company was a corporation which once controlled much of the waterfront of Port Townsend, Washington .