Fort Nisqually Living History Museum

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John Curley from Evening Magazine visits Fort Nisqually Living History Museum, named Best Museum in Evening Magazine's Best of Western Washington Viewer's Poll.  

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Fort Nisqually is a living history museum where volunteers and staff, in period clothing, demonstrate the crafts of the 19th century and engage visitors in historic dialogue during the Living History Days and other events throughout the year.

While on a trading expedition down the Sound last Spring with 8 or 9 men, I applied 12 days of our time to the erecting of a store-house 15 by 20...This is all the semblance of a settlement there is at this moment: But little as it is, it possesses an advantage over all the other settlements we have made on the Coast.

--Archibald McDonald,
Founder of Fort Nisqually
May 1833

Travel back in time with us and experience life in Washington Territory during the fur trade era. A Hudson's Bay Company outpost built in 1833, Fort Nisqually was the first European settlement on Puget Sound. With a diverse work force of American, English, French Canadian, Hawaiian, Irish, Native American, and Scottish laborers, Fort Nisqually was a bustling center of trade that expanded into a large scale agricultural enterprise.

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CALL OR WRITE: FORT NISQUALLY
5400 North Pearl Street #11
Tacoma, WA 98407 USA
(253) 591-5339
FortNisqually@tacomaparks.com

 

 

Last Updated: Dec 30, 2008 3:21 PM