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Pieces of Port Gamble history for sale May 18 By Richard Walker Kitsap Week
Shana Smith plays the Port Gamble School’s pump organ at the museum.
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ORT GAMBLE — You can soon own a piece of Pacific Northwest history. On May 18 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Port Gamble will sell pieces of its past to make room for an expansion of the Port Gamble General Store. The owners of the general store have signed a lease to expand, converting the adjacent Pope Resources timber office into a bar and dinner restaurant. The expansion will open May 1, 2014, Port Gamble general manager Shana Smith said. The result: The Port Gamble Historical Museum, located on the lower level of the general store building, will lose some storage space. Many of those treasures will be sold May 18. There are windows from the Hotel Puget,
Richard Walker / Staff photo
PORT GAMBLE HISTORICAL MUSEUM
A large image of a side view of the Hotel Puget is one of about 100 items for sale at the Port Gamble Historical Museum, May 18. Port Gamble Historical Museum and old bottles unearthed when the hotel was demolished in 1963. There are directional signs and sign frames, 20 ornate balusters (also called spindles
early Port Gamble photos. Oh, and a pump organ someone donated to Port Gamble. Say what? “I’m kind of a softy,” Smith said. “An older gentleman called me and said
or stair sticks) from the Walker-Ames House, old wood chairs, barrister lamps with green shades, art prints, and large, framed reproductions of
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The Port Gamble Historical Museum features artifacts, images and reproduced settings that help tell the story of Port Gamble and the lives of those who lived and worked here. Among the reproductions: A Coast Salish house; a cabin and hold from a Pope & Talbot ship of the late-1800s; rooms in the Hotel Puget, built in 1903 and demolished in 1963; and various mill
work stations. Indigenous artifacts on display include Northwest Coast Native baskets and a carved and painted canoe paddle presented by Port Gamble S’Klallam Chairman Gerald J. Jones to Pope & Talbot Chairman Peter Pope in 1993. Hours and admission: www.portgamble.com/ shops/museum/
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