Working Draft 1986 CITY OF DREAMS: A Guide to Port Townsend Edited by Peter Simpson with contributions by Robin Biffle Jim Heynen Nora Porter Mark Welch 2018 CITY OF DREAMS: A Guide to Port Townsend and Environs With contributions by Jerry Gorsline Ernie Baird Jennifer Westdal Dennis Kelley Text copyright 1986 by Bay Press Text copyright 2018 by the Jefferson County Historical Society To Richard F. McCurdy, Sr. Index to topics Click on title to go to the entry. Indicates updated or new entry. ABUNDANT LIFE SEED FOUNDATION BAYSHORE ENTERPRISES ADMIRALTY INLET BEACH OF THE DEAD AGRICULTURE BECKETT POINT AIRPORT BELL TOWER ALCOHOL PLANT BIG FOUR ALDER BLACKBERRIES ALDRICH’S BLISS NINNY ALEXANDER’S CASTLE BLYN ANTIQUES BOATBUILDING AQUACULTURE BOK KWEI ARCHITECTURE BOSTON MEN ARTILLERY HILL BRINNON ARTS CANDLEFISH ART AFTER 1970 CAPE ALAVA BANNERS CAPE FLATTERY BARKLEY, CHARLES CAPE GEORGE BARTER CASTLES BARTLETT HOUSE CEDAR BASH, ALBERT CEMETERIES BASKETRY CENTER CORMORANTS CENTIPEDES COYLE CENTRUM FOUNDATION CRAB, DUNGENESS CHEAPSKATE HILL CRAFTS CHETZEMOKA CROW’S NEST CHETZEMOKA PARK CRYBABY MOUNTAIN CHEVY CHASE CUSTOMS HOUSE AND POST OFFICE CHICKEN COOP ROAD DABOB BAY CHIMACUM DE LEO BROTHERS BUILDING CHIMAKUM INDIANS DE LION HOUSE CHINESE DEVOE HOUSE CHINESE GARDENS DERBY DAYS CHINOOK JARGON DESTRUCTION ISLAND CHURCHES DIAMOND POINT CITY HALL DISAPPEARANCE OF ISRAEL KATZ CLALLAM BAY DISCOVERY BAY CLALLAM COUNTY DISCOVERY, HMS CLAMBAKE DOGFISH OIL CLAMS DOSEWALLIPS RIVER CLAPP BUILDING DOWNS HOUSE CLEAR-CUT DRY ROT CLIMATE DUCKABUSH CONSERVATION FUTURES DUKE OF YORK DUNGENESS COOPERATIVES DUNGENESS RIVER FRANKLIN COURT DUNGENESS SPIT GALETEA EAGLE, BALD GAMES, INDIAN EBEY’S LANDING GARDINER ECONOMY GEODUCK EDIZ HOOK GLEN COVE EGG AND I ROAD GRANT HOUSE EISENBEIS, CHARLES HADLOCK EISENHOWER, DWIGHT HALLER FOUNTAIN ELK, ROOSEVELT HALLOWEEN FALSE DUNGENESS HAMMA HAMMA RIVER FOGHORNS HAPPY VALLEY FORKS HARBOR DEFENSE SYSTEM FORKS TUXEDO HARDPAN FORT CASEY HASTINGS BUILDING FORT FLAGLER HASTINGS (FRANK) HOUSE FORT NÚÑEZ GAONA HASTINGS (LUCINDA) HOUSE FORT TOWNSEND HASTINGS POND FORT WORDEN HERBERT, FRANK FOUNDERS HERON, GREAT BLUE FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION HILL BUILDING FOWLER BUILDING HIPPIE HOLLOW FOWLER-CAINES BUILDING HOH INDIANS FOWLER HOUSE HOH RIVER HOKO DIG JOYCE HOLLYWOOD JUAN DE FUCA HOMES TOUR JUNGIANS HOOD CANAL KAH TAI HOOD CANAL BRIDGE KAH TAI LAGOON PARK HOT SPRINGS KAH TAI PRAIRIE PRESERVE HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY KALA POINT HURRICANE RIDGE KALALOCH INDIAN ISLAND KATZ, ISRAEL INDIANS KEY CITY INSURRECTION KEYSTONE IRON MAN OF THE HOH KILISUT HARBOR IRONDALE KILSID INDIANS IRRIGATION FESTIVAL KING GEORGE’S MEN ISLAND COUNTY KITSAP COUNTY JACKSON SCULPTURE BEQUEST KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH JALAPA, NICARAGUA KORSAKOV, U.S.S.R. JAMES HOUSE KUHN SPIT JAMESTOWN LAKE CRESCENT JARMAN, WILLIAM LAKE LELAND JEFFERSON COUNTY LAKE OZETTE JEFFERSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE LANDES HOUSE JEFFERSON LAND TRUST LA PUSH JEFFERSON TRANSIT LEADER BUILDING LELAND MILITARY FORTIFICATIONS LEWIS BUILDING MILL LIBRARY, CARNEGIE MINOR, THOMAS T. LIP LIP POINT MORGAN HILL LOFALL MOUNT BAKER LOGGING MOUNT BAKER BLOCK LONDON, JACK MOUNT CONSTANCE LOWER HADLOCK MOUNT OLYMPUS MADRONE MOUNT RAINIER MAKAH DAYS MOUNT TOWNSEND MAKAH INDIANS MOUNT WALKER MAKAH MUSEUM MUTTY HOUSE MANRESA CASTLE MYSTERY BAY MARINE SCIENCE CENTER NAPOLEON’S TOMB MARINE TRADES NEAH BAY MARMOTS NEWSPAPERS MARROWSTONE ISLAND NEW YORK OF THE WEST MARROWSTONE POINT NOOTKA MASTODON NORDLAND MATS MATS BAY NORTH BEACH MAYNARD NORTHWEST WATERSHED INSTITUTE AND THE TARBOO WATERSHED MCINTYRE HOUSE NORWEGIAN MEMORIAL MENZIES, ARCHIBALD NURSE LOG MIDDLEPOINT OAK BAY OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, AN 1/2 PORT ANGELES OIL CITY PORT DISCOVERY OLELLE POINT PORT GAMBLE OLYMPIC COUNTY PORT HADLOCK OLYMPIC GAME FARM PORTLAND OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS PORT LUDLOW OLYMPIC MUSIC FESTIVAL PORT TOWNSEND MINIATURE OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK PORT TOWNSHEND ONE-DOWNSMANSHIP PORTUGEE HILL OZETTE POST OFFICE PEACE COALITION POTLATCH PESTS, STRUCTURAL PREHISTORIC TIMES PETROGLYPHS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, FIRST UNITED PETTYGROVE HOUSE PRESIDENTS PHOTOGRAPHY PRESS EXPEDITION PIONEER BLOCK PROSTITUTION POETRY PROTECTION ISLAND POINT HUDSON PUBLISHERS POINT NO POINT TREATY PUGET SOUND POINT OF THE ARCHES PYSHT POINT WHITNEY QUEETS POINT WILSON QUILCENE POPE AND TALBOT QUILCENE INDIANS POPE JOHN PAUL II QUILEUTE INDIANS QUILTS SAND DOLLARS QUIMPER, MANUEL SAPPHO QUIMPER PENINSULA SAUNDERS HOUSE QUIMPER WILDLIFE CORRIDOR SCOTCH BROOM SCOW BAY QUINAULT INDIANS SEA GALLEY RAILROAD RAIN FORESTS SEALS AND SEA LIONS SEA STACKS RAIN SHADOW SEATTLE RED TIDE SEAWEED RESTORATION SEKIU RETAIL BUSINESS RHODODENDRON FESTIVAL SEQUIM SHANGHAIING RIPTIDE SHINE RIVERS SHIPWRECK ROAD WARRIORS SHUBRICK ROTHCHILD HOUSE RUNNING SIMS WAY ST. MARY’S STAR OF THE SEA CATHOLIC S’KLLALLM PEOPLE CHURCH SMUGGLING ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH SNOW SALAL SOUTH POINT SALMON SPORTS SAN FRANCISCO SPRUCE BEER SAN JUAN ISLANDS SQUAMISH HARBOR STARRETT HOUSE UFO SIGHTINGS STORMS UNCAS STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA UNION WHARF STUMP RANCHER UPTOWN BUSINESS DISTRICT SUQUAMISH INDIANS UTOPIA SWAN, JAMES G. VALENTINO, RUDOLPH SWANSONVILLE VANCOUVER, GEORGE SWELLS VERNACULAR, FISHING SWIMMING VERNACULAR, LOGGING TAMANOWAS ROCK VERNACULAR, LOCALISMS TARBOO VICTORIAN CHAMBER CHOIR TERMINATION POINT VIETNAM VETERANS THORNDYKE BAY VIOLET POINT THUNDERBIRD WARENSKJOLD, DOROTHY TIBBALS BUILDING WARHAWK TOANDOS PENINSULA WAR MEMORIALS TOWNSHEND, MARQUIS OF WATER TOWN TAVERN WATER STREET TREASURE, BURIED WEST END TREE OF HEAVEN WHALES TREES FOR PORT TOWNSEND WHIDBEY ISLAND TRI-AREA WHITNEY GARDENS TRIDENT WINERIES TWANA INDIANS WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL WOOL DOGS ZEE TAI COMPANY XENOPHOBIA ZUCCHINI YOUTH HOSTELS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (1986 Edition): Each of the contributors wishes to acknowledge the friendly assistance and the daily welcome offered by Dixie Romadka, Cecelia Casprowitz, and volunteers at the Jefferson County Historical Society’s museum, and Illma Mund and other volunteers of the Jefferson County Genealogical Society. A major part of the research was conducted in the volumes of the nearly one-hundred-year-old Port Townsend Leader, which the newspaper contributed to the museum’s library in the early 1980s. Thanks are offered to publisher Frank Garred for making them so readily available for research. In addition to these shared acknowledgements, each contributor was assisted and inspired by numerous others. Robin Biffle offers thanks to Sally Weinschrott, chair of the Jefferson County office of the Washington State University Co-operative Extension Service, and to the Eels Northwest Collection at the Whitman College Library. She also offers special acknowledgement to Josephine Howell, Chauncy Park Biffle, Evelyn Monger, and Allen Crenshaw Taylor – “my grandparents who taught me that history is really just a bunch of good stories.” Jim Heynen acknowledges the assistance of Carol Bangs, Jeremiah Gorsline, and Liz Smith. Nora Porter thanks Marge Abraham, Noreen Hobbs, Bob Porter, Linda Okazaki, Tom Wilson, and Wendy Sternshein. Peter Simpson acknowledges Paul and Sally Boyer, B. G. Brown, Frank Green, Marilou Green, David and Judy Hartman, Paddy Hernan, Anne Hirondelle, Tony King, Robert J. Osborne, Mark Rasmussen, and Dennis Sullivan, Jr. He wishes to give special thanks to Thatcher Bailey who eagerly agreed to publish this book before ever seeing one page of copy and who never wavered in his support, Don Keenan who continually offered encouragement, Cathy Johnson who provided meticulous copy editing and cogent editorial suggestions, Pat Simpson who was always there, Tree Swenson who sat through innumerable editorial meetings in order to develop the book’s elegant design, and to each of the other contributors who so quickly got into spirit of the thing and “who kept their humor in the face of my frequent nagging.” Mark Welch acknowledges the assistance of Jeffery McDonald, Margaret Wilson, and Marjorie Welch. He gives special thanks to Connie Welch, and to the memories of Joe Welch, Walt Herstrom and Bill Daly, “who instilled in me a love of history and the language.” INTRODUCTION (1986 Edition): At times, I am certain that Water Street is part of a stage set, and that I never walked down it past the handsomely restored brick buildings of another century. Within the length and breadth of reality, I could never have entered bookshops where I was invited to linger and read, or eaten in restaurants where shellfish were prepared as they are in Paris, or hovered in antique shops where my heritage and my youth were restored to me in mariners’ compasses, feathered weather vanes, and polished mahogany and brass. Above the town there were green cliffs, and I sat on the grass of the highest one and listened to the cries of circling gulls. In the hollow of the land behind me, poets…sang aloud of a printing press for the publication of books of those who remembered their dreams. At night, I watched from the cliff the illuminated palaces of distant ferry boats floating into the harbors, far below. I want to remember this dream. That is how short-story writer Kay Boyle remembers Port Townsend after a summer spent teaching at a writers’ conference. Seattle-based magazine editor Rob Carson experienced a different dream after two years’ residence in Port Townsend as a newspaper reporter. In a 1984, Pacific Northwest magazine article entitled “City of Dreams,” Carson reported that when he first saw Port Townsend in 1976 he felt as if he “could lift off and fly…start (his life) all over. I liked the people I saw