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DuPont Washington |
A former company town for a DuPont plant, the town which bears the company name lies off Interstate 5 between Tacoma and Olympia.
American Indians lived here as early as 5,000 yers ago, and the area was first seen by outsiders in 1792 when British Captain George Vancouver and a party of explorers cruised down the body of water he named Puget Sound.
The area attracted the first non-native settlement in the Puget Sound region, Fort Nisqually, a Hudson's Bay Company trading post built in 1833.
In 1869, the U.S. Government bought the site and opened it for settlement. The DuPont company bought 3,200 acres for a manufacturing plant and company town. The building that houses the Du Pont Historical Museum was a butcher shop and later the city hall.
The City of DuPont is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the only former company town in the state in which most of the homes maintain historic integrity.
DuPont is part of the Tacoma, WA metro area.
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