About Jefferson County, WA

This area has very interesting shipping lanes and waterways. This photo was taken going from Port Townsend area to Kitsap Peninsula across the Hood Canal Bridge. Sub is most likely on it's way to the Keyport Naval Base. Traffic is held up with each passing for about 30 to 40 min. but does not happen that often and makes a good photo op!

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Port Townsend's annual Victorian Home Tour is coming up this weekend on September 19^th and 20^th. Port Townsend is one of 4 Victorian Seaports on the National Register, and has a wonderful collection of well preserved or re-habed homes, mostly from the late 1800's. These lovely homes can be toured inside with self guided tour or with the aid of the homeowners and docents on hand, dressed in period costumes and all very knowledgeable about the history of Port Townsend.

The money raised goes to support the Jefferson Health Care Auxiliary and is also sponsored by the Port Townsend Chamber of Commerce.

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On tour this Saturday and Sunday:

(You can see all these properties on Saturday or Sunday or see part each day)

Horton Bendixen House Circa 1889 1706 Clay Street

Built as a spec house and moved to it's present location in 1905.

Daniel Hill House Circa 1862 411 Fillmore

Originally built as a simple farmhouse

Captain Thomas and Lizzie Grant House

731 Pierce Street

Italian style Villa, typical of the local fashion

Chapel Bay Circa 1850 821 Jefferson

821 Jefferson Street

This years tea house where tea and cookies are served. The chapel is said to have been brought by barge from Bellingham in the 1800's and was used as the parish hall for St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

Siebenbaum Building 1917

815 Washington Street

Antique Auto Museum

First Presbyterian Church Circa 1876

1111 Franklin Street

Built in stages from 1875 to present

Clark Aldrich House Circa 1889

1123 Van Ness

Built as a rental house, an example of a simple home built during Port Townsend's "boom period" in the early 1890's.

Lucinda Hastings House Circa 1891

514 Franklin Street

3642 square feet, with view of bay and

and had 5 fireplaces. Recently sold for

over $900,000.

Plus, the Palace Hotel on Water Street. Built in 1889 for Captain Tibbals. Also, the Commanding Officer's Quarters at Fort Worden. Circa 1930's and furnished with period furnishings.

Watch a video of storm surge downtown Port Townsend in February of 2007
My son shot this amateur footage the morning after a night of 70 mile per hour winds!

The storm destroyed a restaurant ironically named "The Surf"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjld4ulvyx4

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Wooden boats may seem like a thing of the past, but here in the Pacific Northwest they are a passion for many, and thousands of people around the world. In this Victorian seaport village with so many shipwrights and marine trades, the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building is a perfect fit, located in the Port Hadlock waterfront, a few minutes drive from Port Townsend. The style of boat building is characteristic of the area and enhanced by the generations of local craftsmen along with the abundance of natural resources.

Founded in 1981 by Bob Prothero, a master shipwright from Seattle who had worked in the industry for 50 years and brought his knowledge and experience with him.

The school started at the Port Townsend Boat Haven, and as it grew moved to a larger campus in a light industrial area of Port Townsend, and finally moved to it's present location in the historic waterfront area of Port Hadlock, a former bustling wharf and shipping port at the turn of the century.

The school has become nationally accredited as a school of technology and offers the Associate Degree of Occupational Studies and has graduated over 1000 students, many coming from all over the world. It offers full courses in boat building as well as summer and community workshops

The school has boats for sale, and it welcomes the donation of your wooden boat that may be in need of repair or restoration. There is a possible tax deduction for such a donation.

This weekend we are saluting the wooden boats with our annual Wooden Boat Festival here in Port Townsend, and looks like we will have our usual sunny skys and glorious Indian Summer.

For more information go to www.nwboatschool.org

Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building today in Port Hadlock, WA

Inside Wooden Boat School Shop

Wooden boats in the making.