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Date
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Sunday,
October 14, 2001 |
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City
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110 |
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County:
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Kitsap |
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City Name
History:
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Named
for Seabeck, Maine, home of Marshall Blinn, who established a sawmill at
the site in 1857. It was the site of a world-renowned port, a major
Puget Sound shipyard, two mills producing 80,000 board feet of lumber per
day, and a logging camp with 600-1,000 permanent population in the
1880s. On August 6, 1886 fire destroyed most of the town, the
Washington Mill Co. relocated its operation to Port Hadlock, and the place
became a ghost town. In 1914 the 700-acre townsite was purchased by the
Coleman family of Seattle and established as an interdenominational church
conference grounds. |
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