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1512239 [3] Website. cityofgigharbor.net. Gig Harbor ( Lushootseed: txʷaalqəɬ) is the name of both a bay on Puget Sound and a city on its shore in Pierce County, Washington. The population was 12,029 at the 2020 census. [2] Gig Harbor bills itself as "the Maritime City" and maintains a strong connection to its maritime heritage.
The Harbor History Museum is a regional maritime and history museum in Gig Harbor, Washington. It hosts exhibits on regional culture and history, and Midway Schoolhouse, a one-room schoolhouse built in 1893 and moved to the museum's grounds in 2009.
Cutts Island State Park is a public recreation area park comprising the entirety of two-acre (0.81 ha) Cutts Island in Carr Inlet in Pierce County, Washington. The island is a clay butte with a stand of trees and a teardrop-shaped beach at low tide. [3] It sits one half-mile offshore from Kopachuck State Park and is accessible only by water and ...
Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW, originally the Purdy Treatment Center for Women) is a Washington State Department of Corrections women's prison located in Gig Harbor, Washington. [1] With an operating capacity of 740, it is the largest women's prison in the state [2] and is surrounded by Washington State Route 16, and McCormick ...
Built in 1904, this is the oldest one-room schoolhouse in Pierce County. [6] Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS. 3. Arletta School. Arletta School. September 28, 1987. ( #87001163) 3507 Ray Nash Drive NW.
The Key Peninsula lies at the heart of South Puget Sound. The Key Peninsula lies along Puget Sound to the south of Kitsap Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington. It is part of Pierce County and is bordered to the west by Case Inlet and to the east by Carr Inlet. The peninsula is approximately 16 miles (26 km) long and has two Washington ...
The 6th district has been represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by Derek Kilmer, a Democrat from Gig Harbor, since January 2013. He succeeded 36-year incumbent and fellow Democrat Norm Dicks, at the time the dean of the Washington delegation. Established after the 1930 U.S. census, the 6th district is a working class district, with ...
Robert Fuller, one of Gig Harbor’s original resident deputies beginning in the ‘60s, recalled how Robbins was among the first people to visit him after his 2-year-old daughter died in a ...