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The state park occupies a third of the site of the original Fort Townsend built in 1856. The park includes 3,960 feet (1,210 m) of shoreline on Port Townsend Bay , picnicking and camping areas, 6.5 miles (10.5 km) of hiking trails, and facilities for boating, fishing, and crabbing.
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Fort Worden Historical State Park is located in Port Townsend, Washington, [1] on 433 acres (175 hectares) originally known as Fort Worden, a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps base constructed to protect Puget Sound from invasion by sea. [2]
Fort Pillow State Historic Park; Fort Piute; Fort Point National Historic Site; Fort Quitman; Fort Randolph (Panama) Fort Ritchie; Fort Rucker, Arizona; Fort Saulsbury; Fort Scammell; Fort Sherman; Fort Slocum; Fort Steilacoom; Fort Stevens (Oregon) Fort Stikine; Fort Sumner (Maine) Fort Taylor (Washington) Fort Ter-Waw; Fort Townsend State ...
The first two parks were formed from donated land in 1915, and by 1929 the state had seven parks. In 1947 the State Parks Committee was renamed to the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission and given authority to oversee the state park system. By 1960 the number of state parks had increased to 130.
Fort Flagler State Park is a public recreation area that occupies the site of Fort Flagler, a former United States Army fort at the northern end of Marrowstone Island in Washington. [2] The state park occupies 1,451 acres (587 ha) south of the entrance to Admiralty Inlet , and the Marrowstone Point Light stands adjacent.
In 1976, the Downtown waterfront and parts of Uptown were designated a Registered Historic District. Later, Fort Worden (now part of Fort Worden State Park) and the City of Port Townsend were designated National Historic Landmarks. [6] Bell Tower. The Bell Tower on the bluff above downtown is one of two known towers of this type in the United ...
A Duvall road, a park, and several businesses are named after it. [15] [16] The rock, and two non-native sequoias adjacent to it probably planted by area pioneers, are a local landmark. [17] The erratic lies in what is said to be the smallest King County park, 20 by 70 feet (6.1 m × 21.3 m) in extent, that barely contains the rock and sequoias ...