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BKlounge93 OP t1_is8nroh wrote

Reply to comment by Perenially_behind in Port Townsend this evening by BKlounge93

Oh yeah there was a stretch for a while where they thought PT was gonna be the big city in the area, around when both PT and seattle were about the same size. Could have been totally different.

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Perenially_behind t1_is94po0 wrote

Yeah, Port Townsend and Port Angeles were duking it out to be the major city. Then Teddy Roosevelt created Olympic National Park and Port Townsend entered a state of arrested decay for decades.

We're sure not in that state now though.

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pala4833 t1_isb1h9r wrote

The arrested decay really resulted from the Alaska Gold Rush. Seattle became the outfitting center and the railroads gave up on reaching the peninsula.

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