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796-3
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- 1934 (Creation)
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ca. 1934. Dr. Joseph Huggins of Philadelphia, who spent his childhood at Fort Nisqually, views the reconstruction of the fort at Point Defiance Park from the steps of the Granary. As Dr. Huggins gazed over the rebuilt fort, he said that it looked "pretty much like the old place." The restoration had its formal dedication on September 3, 1934, more than 100 years after the fort's original construction in 1833. The original Fort Nisqually, a Hudson's Bay Co. fur gathering post and the first settlement in Pierce County, was located in DuPont. A movement was spearheaded by the Young Men's Business Club of Tacoma to move it to a high bluff in Point Defiance Park overlooking the Narrows and restore it. The only original buildings that were still intact were the Granary, pictured, and the Factor's house. The Granary was constructed in 1851, making it the oldest standing building in the state of Washington. It was a storage facility for the posts' grain and harvest.
Parks--Tacoma; Point Defiance Park (Tacoma); Hudson's Bay Co. (Tacoma); Frontier & pioneer life--Tacoma; Fort Nisqually (Tacoma); Huggins, Joseph;