125 years ago (1891)
For the second time in three months, a schooner bound from San Francisco to Alaska on a fishing and sealing cruise diverts to Port Townsend because of a mutinous crew. The …
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Hand-tinted postcards brought color to photographs like this 1890s scene of downtown Port Townsend. Courtesy Tom Camfield Collection
125 years ago (1891)
For the second time in three months, a schooner bound from San Francisco to Alaska on a fishing and sealing cruise diverts to Port Townsend because of a mutinous crew. The first crew had complained to "have been poorly fed, housed and generally ill-treated.” The second crew, concerned their schooner was too heavily loaded, and after the second of two gales smashed two of its eight boats, decided the ship was not seaworthy to continue north.
The Leader editorializes that hotel improvements are needed. “Many a newcomer has formed an unfavorable opinion of the place through the impossibility of finding a good room on his arrival late at night, and has gone away in a severely critical mood.”
“The Secret Orders. Grips and Pass Words from Council and Lodge” is the headline on a listing of officers and activities for these Port Townsend clubs: Port Townsend Royal Arch Chapter, Sons of St. George, Masonic Lodge, Odd Fellows, Grand Army of the Republic, Knights of Pythias, Good Templars, Red Men and A.O.U.W.
70 years ago (1946)
"Chetzemoka Park's playground area, neglected during the war years, will gradually be re-outfitted with new equipment as materials become available."
20 years ago (1996)
The Port Townsend city attorney posts a notice of default at the city's municipal golf course and mailed it to leaseholder Steve McPherson and his Festival Management Inc. "It's for real this time," said Tim McMahan, city attorney.
H.J. "Jack" Carroll is named Port Townsend Senior Association king, with Ruth Reandeau as senior queen, for the upcoming Rhododendron Festival.
The earthquake felt in Port Townsend May 2 is considered a "wake-up call" to the subduction zone movement that could really shake the Olympic Peninsula.
The City of Port Townsend makes efforts to streamline the permit process to ensure land-use decisions within 120 days.
Reid Johnston, Port Townsend High School Class of 1987 and the varsity team's baseball coach in 1996, signs a professional baseball contract with the Independent League.
(Source: Leader Collection; Jefferson County Historical Society Museum and Research Center, 13692 Airport Cutoff Road, Port Townsend; Jefferson County Historical Society, 379-6673, jchsmuseum.org; jchswa.org, the online search site)
