City of DuPont Pierce County, Washington

Name: City of DuPont
Address: Washington

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General information on City of DuPont

Feature Type: Incorporated

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for City of DuPont

A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named

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.

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names

Meany, Edmond S., Origin of Washington Geographic Names, 1923 University of Washington, pp 191 | Origin of Washington Geographic Names

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.)

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names

Meany, Edmond S., Origin of Washington Geographic Names, 1923 University of Washington, pp 73 | Origin of Washington Geographic Names

A Selected Bibliography of City of DuPont, Pierce County, Washington

A compilation of essential readings detailing the history, geography, and culture of the region.

Du Pont--the story of a company town by May G. Munyan

Du Pont--the story of a company town examines the highly engineered industrial settlement and isolated corporate enclave situated on the expansive gravel prairies and sheltered shoreline of the southern Puget Sound. Munyan details how the region's distinct topographic and hydrological features—specifically the flat, glacially scoured outwash plains, the dense surrounding buffer of coniferous forests, and the vital deep-water maritime access of the Nisqually Reach—strictly dictated the placement and layout of this purpose-built explosives manufacturing hub. By mapping the strategic dispersal of volatile powder-works bunkers across the open prairie and the construction of a rigidly controlled, self-contained worker village tethered to the marine shipping docks, the narrative highlights how this specific, naturally isolated geography anchored the massive industrial production of dynamite necessary for western resource extraction. Ultimately, this civic record serves as a localized spatial history, demonstrating how the unique glacial topography, deep-water connectivity, and requisite physical isolation of this Pacific Northwest landscape fundamentally shaped the highly controlled, corporately engineered character of early DuPont.

240 pages illustrations 23 cm

Non-circulating [ 1 ]

History · 1st Edition · Valley Press, Puyallup, Wash., 1972
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