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Hoquiam (/ ˈ h oʊ k w i ə m / HOH-kwee-əm) is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. It borders the city of Aberdeen at Myrtle Street, with Hoquiam to the west. The two cities share a common economic history in lumbering and exporting, but Hoquiam has maintained its independent identity.
The Lytle brothers, Robert and Joseph, ran a grocery business in Fairhaven, Washington, then moved their business to Hoquiam. [2] In the 1880s, Hoquiam became a center for lumber. [3] When a customer paid his bill by turning over his logging operation, the brothers became part of the logging industry. [2]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
Hoquiam's Castle, also known as the Robert Lytle Mansion, is a private residence in Hoquiam, Washington. Built in 1897 and completed in 1900, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Aug. 25—Hoquiam's two new parks now have official names — one for a cannery that used to stand nearby, another for a highly-decorated Army veteran who graduated Hoquiam High School in the 1960s.
The area that comprises modern-day Grays Harbor County is the ancestral territory of several indigenous Coast Salish peoples, including the Quinault and Lower Chehalis.They first came into contact with European explorers in the late 18th century and the tribes were later afflicted by regional epidemics.
Sierra was built at Matthews shipyard in Hoquiam for E. K. Wood Lumber Company and was the first motor ship built on Grays Harbor. The ship's engines were made in Sweden by Bolinder, which sent a representative to oversee their installation. Senator Miles Poindexter attended the ship's launch on August 30, 1916.
Waterfront of Aberdeen, Washington in 1912, along the Chehalis River, showing a four-masted schooner loading lumber, and on the north side of the river, a sternwheeler moored at a dock Steamboats operated on Grays Harbor , a large coastal bay in the State of Washington, and on the Chehalis and Hoquiam rivers which flow into Grays Harbor near ...