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With the acquisition of La Conner Trading, PSN was almost doubled in the size of its fleet. After a period of transition, the La Conner company was effectively merged into the reorganized Puget Sound Navigation Company, which in later years came to dominate Puget Sound passenger and ferry business as a near-monopoly. [1]
In 1903, the La Conner Trading and Transportation Company merged with the Puget Sound Navigation Company (PSN), and Alice Gertrude became part of the PSN fleet. [ 1 ] In 1904, Alice Gertrude and another PSN ship, Rosalie , ran on alternate days, six days a week, from Pier 1 in Seattle, which was at the foot of Yesler Street, for Port Townsend ...
In 1889, the Seattle and Northern Railroad Company illegally constructed a rail line on Swinomish lands, crossing sensitive marine ecosystems. Today, the line is operated by the BNSF Railway Company. A 1991 easement agreement with BNSF prohibits the company from running trains at a limit of 25 cars per day, as well as requiring BNSF to disclose ...
Toxic fallout from LA fires will damage both land and sea. Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY ... and the toxins will likely have long-term impacts on water quality and marine life, including on dolphins ...
La Conner, c. 1889. La Conner was first settled in May 1867 by Alonzo Low and was then known by its post office name, Swinomish. Its location on the Swinomish channel was an ideal safe harbor for ships. In 1869, J.S. Conner bought the settlement's trading post and in 1870 had the name changed to honor his wife, Louisa Ann Conner.
Ferries and steamboats of Lake Crescent, Washington were used for water transport of passengers and freight before highways were built in the area in the early 1920s. Prior to highway construction, Lake Crescent was used as a route from Port Townsend into the northwestern part of the Olympic Peninsula.
Fort Whitman (Washington) was an Endicott Board fortification on Goat Island, Puget Sound, Washington state, just offshore of La Conner, [1] a part of the Harbor Defenses of Puget Sound. [2] It comprised a single 4 gun 6" DC battery, Battery Harrison , and mine control structures.
A firefighter works as the Hughes Fire burns on January 22, 2025, in Castaic, California, about 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.