DuPont, Washington
Pierce County · Population 10,151 · Card no. 1531
DuPont was a company town for an explosives works, built in 1909 well away from anything it might damage, and rebuilt in the 1990s as a planned community.
- The Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Nisqually stood nearby from 1833.
- The powder works ran until 1976.
- Nearly the whole modern city was built after 1990.
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