MAC #11: Town of New Dungeness Traditional Cache
MAC #11: Town of New Dungeness
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Presents this geocache highlighting a bit of the history of our beautiful city and the surrounding valley.
This geocache is part of the Sequim Centennial History Challenge series.
TOWN OF DUNGENESS
Beginning around 1851, the first settlers in the future Clallam County staked claims at New Dungeness, west of the Dungeness River on the harbor created by Dungeness Spit. They raised potatoes in the fertile soil and cut trees to make cedar shakes, ship masts, and pilings. Within a year or two, some moved five miles south to the extensive prairie where the city of Sequim is now located.
When Washington Territory was separated from Oregon in 1853, all of the northern Olympic Peninsula was part of Jefferson County. Clallam County was carved out of Jefferson effective April 26, 1854, and the county seat was established at New Dungeness, where it remained until 1890. HistoryLink.org
In 1890, when the channel around the spit into the bay began to fill in with sand and sediment, New Dungeness merchants purchased land on the east side of the Dungeness river and moved their buildings and businesses one mile east onto Woodland Avenue (now called Sequim-Dungeness Way) making it the main street of the new town.
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