Welcome to the Sequalitchew Creek Trail!
You are standing at the beginning of the Sequalitchew Creek trail which meanders down a 200 foot elevation drop from DuPont City Hall down to the Puget Sound, one mile trip will be 1.5 miles. I encourage you to take the trip and cache as you head down to the sound.
THE HISTORY
Sequalitchew-Nisqually Era
Native Americans existed here for at least 5700 years. The Sequalitchew Creek area provided food and home for the Sequalitchew-Nisqually Indians who lived year round near the mouth of the creek.
Hudson Bay Company Era
The arrival of the HBC in 1832 on the creek brought British influance to the Puget Sound region. The British owned company built Fort Nisqually, a fur trading and agriculture settlement, south of the creek. The for was later purchased by the US Government in 1869.
E. I. DuPont de Nemours Company Era
In 1906 the DuPont Company purchased 2700 acres o fland and 1485 fee of waterfront property for the manufacture of black powder and high explosives. The creek provided hydroeclectric power to the plant and village. A narrow gauge railway ran on the north side of the creek to transport finished explosives down to the wharf adn import raw materials back to the plant. The property was sold to Weyhaeuser in 1976.
Today
Today, the Home Course golf course sits on the land where the DuPont Company plant made explosives and the trail before you was once the railway bed for the narrow gauge trails that up and down the the north side of the creek canyon carrying finished explosives to ships waiting at the wharf. Today there is also a geocache that you are here to visit.
Special thanks to the City of DuPont for the history lesson on the area. If you are interested in more history of DuPont, please visit the DuPont Museum located at N 47 05.727 122 37.707.
The cache is an easy find for pretty much most cachers. See the hint if you really need one.
 This cache was placed by a WSGA member. If you are a geocacher in the state of Washington, please consider joining Washington State Geocaching Association. See the WSGA website for details. |