The Biggest Port that Never Was
July 29th 2011 The founders of Port Townsend in 1850, Alfred Plummer, Charles Bachelder, Francis Pettygrove, and Loren Hastings, believed they had an unbeatable opportunity.
Their new port sat directly on the mouth of Puget Sound, the most important harbor north of San Francisco.
They intended their town to be the largest in the Pacific Northwest.
For a whi
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