|
|
Article: Port Angeles Graving Dock.
- Article from:
- Pacific Builder and Engineer
- Article date:
- October 4, 2004
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 Reed Business Information, Inc. (US). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Story By Carl Molesworth
Facility Will Build Pontoons And Anchors For Hood Canal Bridge
The region we now call Puget Sound was virtual wilderness when the first white explorer, an American named Capt. John Kendrick, nosed his small ship into the Strait of Juan de Fuca in 1792 looking for a waterway through the American continent to the East Coast.
Kendrick didn't find the Northwest Passage, but what he and subsequent explorers did find was a long arm of the sea, surrounded on all sides by vast forests of some of the biggest trees on earth. Here and there, native villages dotted the shoreline.
Before long, white settlers began arriving ...