When the DuPont Company purchased the land for the Powder Works plant they construction crews were housed in the tar paper shacks in 1906. I also recall that some men were living in box cars as well during the construction phase. These shacks were erected at and around the 1843 site of Fort Nisqually. A boarding house was across Sequalitchew Creek from the village and was for the bachelor’s. A well , which was probably associated with the boarding house is located approx 400m east of it.
The main entrance to the plant was via the road through Old Town. The road continued across the plant and to the beach just south of the mouth of the Sequalitchew. Along this beach were a Dance Hall, a smokehouse and a boat house (DuPont Company 1908). Old town was occupied until the village was built and was then torn down. Some houses remained until the 1920′s.
