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Object Name |
Granary |
Collection |
Metro Parks Tacoma - Permanent Collection |
Date |
1850 |
Description |
Fort Nisqually is a reconstructed fur trading outpost, originally located in what is today DuPont. Led by efforts from the Young Men's Business Club of Tacoma, the two surviving buildings from the mid-19th century fort were moved to Point Defiance in the 1930s. There, the rest of the buildings were added through Works Progress Administration and local work relief programs. One of the two surviving buildings is called "the Granary". The granary was used to store crops such as wheat and oats, grown by a subsidiary of the British-owned Hudson's Bay Company, the Puget Sound Agricultural Company. Both companies' operations were run by the manager at Fort Nisqually. Edward Huggins was the last manager at the site, and after the Fort closed in 1869, he stayed on the land as an American citizen. Huggins sold the land, and the remaining buildings, to the DuPont Powder Manufacturing Company in 1906. The granary dates to 1850, and was built in a Canadian "post-in-sill" method of construction. It is one of only a few surviving example of this typically-Hudson Bay Company-style building in the United States. It is also one of the oldest wooden structures in Washington State, and is listed as a National Historic Landmark. |
Location |
Point Defiance Park |
Object Number |
PDP-032 |
Web link |
Metro Parks Tacoma, Fort Nisqually Living History Museum |