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City of DuPont Creek Blocking the SCWC

I don’t have much to post other than to read the update over at SCWC. In effect the City of DuPont is claiming all sorts of laws and permitting processes in order to stop the Sequalitchew Creek members from putting in beaver deceivers in order to help restore the historic flow of the Sequalitchew Creek. “In [...]

Centex Homebuilders let’s build on dare dem wetlands

If DuPont isn’t already selling out to Glacier to expand the mine which will for once and for all wipe out the historic Methodist Mission grounds first settled here in 1840. Since if that continues and Don Russel continues to fall on deaf ears, I guess Edmonds Marsh may cease to exist anyways. Let’s just fill it [...]

Sequalitchew Creek Railroad Runs Through It?

In 1890 Fred Plummer “Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1890 by Fred G. Plummer in the office of the Librarian of congress at Washington”. The interesting aspect of this map is that in 1890 the maps put the Union Pacific Rail R oad across the Sequalitchew Creek and then heads west [...]

Nisqually Methodist Mission, Why Nisqually?

There is a great gap in information that we don’t fully understand about why the mission was left or why it was really started even in the first place. Other than the “Yes, we know the mission was here” and “Yes, Natives burned it to the ground” is the normal everyday events about the mission. However, I [...]

Sequalitchew Creek Trail Closed – Due to Wash Out

The Sequalitchew Creek Trail is closed by order of the City. It experienced a washout.

Historical News and DuPont City Administrator

Finally! Something Bill McDonald can agree on as stated in his Friday letter on 01/08/2010 he mentions the Mission Site and also says there is no definitive evidence that it is where the marker current lays. For more information and views: Methodist Mission

Saving the Creek and understanding the MOU

Read the Glacier MOU for the mine expansion here

John Plaster Richmond

John Plaster Richmond (1811-1895) — also known as John P. Richmond — of Schuyler County, Ill. Born in Middletown, Frederick County, Md., August 11, 1811. Son of Francis Preston Richmond and Susanna (Stottlemeyer) Richmond; married 1835 to America Walker; married 1859 to Kitty Gristy. Democrat. Physician; minister; in 1840, he officiated at the first Protestant [...]

Old Town

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 [...]

A Little Blackberry Jam With Your Land Clearing?

About a week ago, I was taking my son back to the emergency room and as I was leaving the City of DuPont, I noticed at the intersection of Barksdale and Wilmington there were crews there clearing the land. This corner marked so many memories for me as a child and had already been changed [...]