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2 unusual facts about Port Townsend


Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast

The Chimakum people were a Chimakuan-speaking people whose traditional territory lay in the area of Port Townsend, Washington.

Simon B. Conover

He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor in 1880, a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1885, and was appointed United States surgeon at Port Townsend, Washington, in 1889.


Beckett Point, Washington

Beckett Point is a small point jutting out into Discovery Bay located ten miles from the city of Port Townsend in Jefferson County, Washington, United States.

Chimakuan languages

It was spoken until the 1940s on the east side of the Olympic Peninsula between Port Townsend and Hood Canal.

Gardiner, Washington

Gardiner has a public boat ramp that provides access to Discovery Bay; the ramp is maintained by the Port of Port Townsend.

Joe LaBarbera

LaBarbera is also on the faculty of the Bud Shank Jazz Workshop in Port Townsend, Washington, has also served on the National Endowment for the Arts council in Washington, D.C., and has been a guest at many other colleges as both performer and lecturer.

Keystone, Island County, Washington

It is near the Keystone Ferry Landing, a dock for the Washington State Ferries route to Port Townsend that provides a maritime link for State Route 20 across Admiralty Inlet.

MV Klickitat

She was serving on the Keystone-Port Townsend crossing in November 2007 when the entire Steel Electric class was withdrawn from service due to hull corrosion issues.


see also

Art McLarney

In 1959, McLarney was appointed recreational leader of the Fort Worden Diagnostic and Treatment Center in his home-town Port Townsend, Washington.

Eliot Weinberger

Cecilia Vicuña, Unravelling Words and the Weaving of Water, Graywolf (Port Townsend, WA), 1992.

Port Townsend Writers' Conference

Noted authors who have been associated with the Port Townsend Writers' Conference over the years include Margaret Atwood, Raymond Carver, Alice Walker, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ken Kesey, Carolyn Forché, Belle Randall, Barry Lopez, Tom Robbins, Sam Hamill, Marvin Bell, Sherman Alexie, David Guterson, Terry Tempest Williams and Frank Herbert.

The Port Townsend Writers' Conference was founded in 1974 by novelist Bill Ransom.

Tideman

Serena Tideman, US born composer and classical and improvisational cellist who resides in Port Townsend, Washington