120 years ago (1894)
Willie Lange, the “Pride of Port Townsend,” while a baseball player for the Port Townsend Colts, “is making a name for himself in professional baseball.”
50 years …
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In the U.S. Army in the early 1900s, the Coast Artillery was considered elite duty. The artillery range-finding technology was advanced, and the soldiers lived on bases with amenities, such as a bowling alley. Once a year, the troops from Fort Worden and Fort Flagler marched into Jefferson County for an “encampment,” which in this case, was a Chimacum Valley scene. The wagons carried tents and other gear, but not the troops. Photo from Tom Camfield Collection
120 years ago (1894)
Willie Lange, the “Pride of Port Townsend,” while a baseball player for the Port Townsend Colts, “is making a name for himself in professional baseball.”
50 years ago (1964)
Two divers reported that while offshore of the Gardiner boat landing, a car drove up, and an elderly man got out with a rifle and began shooting toward the water. They men waved, and the man got back into the car and left. Later, they found a dead seal in the water.
Port Townsend’s highest recorded temperature in 1964 was 81 degrees on Aug. 24.
The Washington State Parks Association favors a resolution to acquire the hill area and the waterfront at Fort Worden not already being used by the Fort Worden Treatment Center.
Mr. and Mrs. Hap Johnson have Key City Bowl, at Kearney and Jefferson streets, open for the 1964-65 season. Bud Winterburn was contractor for the new 140-by-75-foot building.
20 years ago (1994)
“The reopening of the Nordland General Store this month will be welcomed by Marrowstone Island residents, who for the last year have been without a local source of groceries and sundries for the first time since 1915.”
“Admiral Marine Works, Inc., which at its peak is second only to the Port Townsend Paper Corp. as Jefferson County’s largest private employer, intends to expand to Port Angeles.”
“Jefferson County members of the natural foods industry hail the passage of a compromise U.S. Senate bill that eases the Food and Drug Administration’s control over herbs, dietary supplements, natural and organic products.
(Source: Leader Collection, and Jefferson County Historical Society Museum and Research Center, 379-6673)
