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Classic WA maps: 1889 Puget Sound & Olympic Peninsula

Classic WA maps: 1889 Puget Sound & Olympic Peninsula

Anyone who looks at a current map of Puget Sound will spot large cities like Seattle and Tacoma and familiar geographic features like Point Defiance and Elliott Bay. But when you look at old maps of the sound, you realize that some names were different. This 1889 map of Puget Sound and the Olympic Peninsula proves it. What is Elliott Bay today was known as Duwamish Bay in 1889. Alki Point had a different name back then, too — Battery…

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From Digital Archives: Classic photos of Washington beaches

From Digital Archives: Classic photos of Washington beaches

(Photos courtesy of Washington State Digital Archives) When you live near an ocean, as most Washingtonians do, you can’t help yourself but go to the beach now and then. People visit the ocean to walk along the beach, play in the sand, dig clams, or just sit back and watch the waves and hear them crash onto the shore. With summer almost over, you might want to head down to the coast and visit a beach before the weather returns…

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