City of DuPont Pierce County, Washington
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- Feature Type: Incorporated
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for City of DuPont
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| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| City of DuPont | Official |
| DuPont | Official |
Origin Notes and History of City of DuPont
References to City of DuPont that document the origin of its place name
NISQUALLY HOUSE, first settlement of white men on Puget Sound, established by the Hudson's Bay Company near the mouth of the Nisqually River in the southwestern part of what is now Pierce County. Early in April, 1833, Chief Factor Archibald McDonald selected the site and left some goods there in charge of Pierre Charles, a French Canadian. He returned with Dr. William Fraser Tolmie and others and the fort or house was regularly established the daily journal or record beginning with May 30, 1833. It was continued as a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company until the fall of 1841 when it was turned over to the Puget Sound Agricultural Company a subsidiary organization of the Hudson's Bay Company. The United States purchased the rights of the British companies on September 10, 1869, under the treaty of July 1, 1863. ( Treaties, 1776-1909, Volume I., pages 688-691.) See Dupont.
DUPONT, a town in Pierce County near the site of the famous Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Nisqually. The new name arose when there was established in that locality the extensive works of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company. (Victor J. Farrar, in Names MSS., Letter 329.)
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Du Pont--the story of a company town by May G. Munyan
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