Description: Old Tacoma, Paperback by Gallacci, Caroline; Tacoma Historical Society, ISBN 0738531030, ISBN-13 9780738531038, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In 1865, Job Carr paddled a canoe to his new homestead on a small harbor that would become Old Tacoma. The area's notorious reputation--as "The Wildest Port North of San Francisco's Barbary Coast"--haunted it for decades after the tall-masted schooners, sailors, brothels, and saloons were gone. Situated on the deepwater shoreline of Commencement Bay to ship timber from the vast tracts surrounding it, "Old Tacoma" was bypassed by the Northern Pacific terminus in favor of "New Tacoma" a few miles away. Settled by waves of Scandinavian and Croatian immigrants to work the mills and purse seiners, Old Tacoma became an isolated community. Though industry, shipbuilding, and timber mills gave way to commerce and recreation, the community of Old Tacoma still retains the unique flavor of its colorful past.
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Book Title: Old Tacoma
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Item Height: 0.3 in
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa), United States / West / Pacific (Ak, CA, Hi, Or, Wa), United States / General, Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional)
Publication Year: 2006
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, Photography, History
Item Weight: 10.5 Oz
Author: Caroline Gallacci
Item Length: 9.2 in
Book Series: Images of America Ser.
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Perfect
