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Welcome to City of DuPont
DuPont a former company town for a DuPont dynamite plant, the town which bears the company name lies off Interstate 5 between Tacoma and Olympia and borders Ft. Lewis US Army Base
American Indians lived here as early as 5,000 years ago, and the area was first seen by outsiders in 1792 when British Captain George Vancouver and a party of explorers cruised down the body of water he named Puget Sound.
The area attracted the first non-native settlement in the Puget Sound region, Fort Nisqually, a Hudson's Bay Company trading post built in 1833.
In 1869, the U.S. Government bought the site and opened it for settlement. The DuPont company bought 3200 acres for a dynamite manufacturing plant and company town. The building that houses the DuPont Historical Museum was a butcher shop and later the city hall.
DuPont is part of the Pierce County-Tacoma, WA metro area
Created on 02/04/2003 10:24 AM by admin
Updated on 05/03/2008 08:32 PM by admin
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Ruston is living out of Reserve Funds, what about DuPont? |
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Posted by: admin on 07/31/2008 10:28 AM
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| City of Ruston is famous for unfriendly business environment, wanna be political powers, scandals, and arsenic tainted soil. They are suffering with lack of services due to lack of money. Doesn't sound like DuPont? But we can change that. |
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Another Score By Lacey while City of DuPont watches |
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Posted by: admin on 07/07/2008 07:43 PM
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DuPont is at the sideline again. Hawks Prairie landed another project.
Following excerpt taken from South Sound Business Examiner |
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Branding of DuPont, WA |
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Posted by: admin on 05/01/2008 12:07 AM
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| There is an ongoing effort to re-brand DuPont, WA. NW Landing / Quadrant had many opportunities to bring interesting commercial ventures and build a city around of it. But they opted not to do so due to increase profits. They failed to build a properly planned city. Now everyone is looking for a solution for the problems they created like looking for a candle in a blackout. |
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A dark day in DuPont |
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Posted by: admin on 04/30/2008 11:53 PM
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| There is a Seattle Times article on long time resident of DuPont, Carlos Torres. This is just a news. |
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Can we correct the problems of DuPont Station? |
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Posted by: admin on 04/23/2008 08:46 AM
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| Many of the merchants have been failing in DuPont Station. Numerous examples had been on the local news. Can we do anything about it? Yes there is still hope since there are several vacant parcels. City of Tacoma is doing a similar project to recover the downtown area. |
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Should a guard dog have friends? |
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Posted by: admin on 04/15/2008 10:28 PM
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| Unfortunately, we have been witnessing too much cozy relationships between certain council members and selected developers. What are the reasons he /she is in the office? |
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Where is The Old Mayor, Steve Young? |
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Posted by: admin on 04/14/2008 06:11 AM
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| We are quite sure he is busy showing his resume to others after leaving a disaster in DuPont. During his tenure, he left his position unattended. It was very clear that he was more interested shining his resume for his own future than serving. |
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Positive Direction of New Mayor |
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Posted by: admin on 04/14/2008 06:03 AM
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Mrs. Tamara Jenkins is clearly heading to a right direction. She clearly understand city needs a new infusion of money to keep the city
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How our kids coming back from Iraq? |
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Posted by: admin on 04/02/2008 06:58 AM
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| One picture says thousands of words. Isn't time to bring our kids back? |
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New Grocery Store in DuPont? |
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Posted by: admin on 04/01/2008 09:39 AM
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| New Barksdale Partners LLC submitted an application to build a 13500sqf fresh grocery store in Barksdale State. Current plans are in the review by Quadrant (for master plan compatiblity) and City of DuPont. This was a long waited project by DuPont residents. The operator of the grocery store has not been selected yet. There are several interested parties. |
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Calvin Goings calls for resignation of Pierce County Planner |
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Posted by: admin on 03/10/2008 06:16 PM
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| Finally a politician is making a right and bold call. Current planner has been nothing but a flap for Pierce County and has been a bottleneck for developement and redevelopment of Pierce County. |
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Hunger for rock eating up supply of sand, gravel |
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Posted by: admin on 03/01/2008 03:43 PM
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| There is more into the Squeltchcreek project than Glacier NW is presenting. Please read Seattle Times article for a better opinion. |
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DuPont’s historic gatehouse landmark comes down to make way for road |
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Posted by: admin on 02/29/2008 10:19 AM
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| According to TNT, another Historical artifact came down in DuPont. |
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Dupont Woman Killed In Afghanistan |
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Posted by: admin on 02/28/2008 10:01 AM
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According to KIRO TV, our resident got killed in Kandahar, Afganistan.
Our most sincere condolences on the loss of Cydney Mizell. |
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Alleged Future DuPont Grocer Village Foods IGA Files for Bankruptcy Protection |
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Posted by: admin on 03/02/2008 04:07 PM
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This article will clearly explain why everyone has been mum on the grocery. This Seattle Times article will clearly explain it to you. This
IGA is the same one is trying to build one in DuPont or Mr. Mike Rabstoff says so. Grocery was a big fat lie to pass their rezoning which they did. I hope DuPont residents will wake up soon to smell the air.
No further comment. Please read the article yourself.
(First of all, we like to disclaim that a small business failure is not something nice to see. Unfortunate to see how big box stores have been smashing the small businesses with strong purchasing powers.) |
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McDonaldville or DuPont ? |
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Posted by: admin on 02/14/2008 11:48 AM
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| Are we going to rename the city in the honor of Mr. McDonald? Look at his track record. |
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City Administrator Mr. McDonald |
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Posted by: admin on 02/14/2008 11:45 AM
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Quote from TNT
McDonald told The News Tribune, "We won't let him come back until we know he's fit for duty. It's in the public's interest to know whether he's fit."
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Taj Mahal in DuPont, WA? |
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Posted by: admin on 02/14/2008 09:45 AM
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| City of DuPont is building a Taj Mahal like Civic Center. $12,500 barbeque pit, a vehicle washrack for $150,000.00. |
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