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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.
Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington.As of the 2020 census, the population was 32,977. [1] The county seat and only incorporated city is Port Townsend. [2]
The paper's previous owner, Horvitz Newspapers of Bellevue, Washington, had held it for 17 years. [ 5 ] The same day it purchased the Peninsula Daily News , Sound Publications also bought a competing weekly newspaper publisher, Olympic View Publishing Company, owner of the Sequim Gazette and Forks Forum , along with local real estate publications.
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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [3] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Location of Jefferson County in Washington. This list presents the full set of buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts designated on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Washington, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them.
Samuel Hadlock, the founder of Port Hadlock, moved west in 1846, finally landing in the Port Hadlock area in 1870. He contracted with the Washington Mill Company to build a sawmill on a spit of land at the south end of Port Townsend Bay, on a low bank, but deep enough waters for tall ships to moor. Hadlock established a large lumber mill.
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 ...