Fort Nisqually, Point Defiance Park

Address:5400 N Pearl St
Tacoma, Washington
Tel: (253) 591-5339

Back in 1903, the Hudson's Bay Company established Fort Nisqually in DuPont, just 17 miles south of Tacoma, as a trading post. Today this spot is known as the Fort Nisqually Historic Site. Home to a granary, a trade store, a blacksmith shop, and laborers' quarters, the Fort Nisqually Historic Site has been refurbished and is now opened to the public. Visitors to the site can experience firsthand what it was like to live in the American Frontier in the 1850s, when Fort Nisqually was at its zenith as a trading post.