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796-1
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- 1934 (Creation)
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ca. 1934. Dr. Joseph Huggins (left), "Little Joe" the youngest of the Huggins boys raised at Fort Nisqually, and W.P. Bonney (right), secretary of the State Historical Society, at the door of Fort Nisqually Factor's House after the reconstruction of the Hudson's Bay Co. post at Point Defiance Park in Tacoma. They are looking for the marks made on the post made by Edward Huggins to measure the height of his growing young sons. Time and weather had obliterated the marks. A drive to move Fort Nisqually from its original location in DuPont to a bluff overlooking the Narrows was begun by the Young Men's Business Club of Tacoma. It culminated in the Fort's formal dedication September 3, 1934. Only two of the original buildings could be moved, the Factor's House, pictured, and the Granary. The Factor's House was built in 1854 for Dr. Tolmie in the new "Yankee style," to replace the smaller and older Tyee House. (E.T. Short's column T. Times 8-18-1934; Fort Nisqually web site)
Bonney, William P.; Parks--Tacoma; Point Defiance Park (Tacoma); Hudson's Bay Co. (Tacoma); Frontier & pioneer life--Tacoma; Fort Nisqually (Tacoma); Huggins, Joseph;