Battery Benson was the last gun emplacement completed atop Artillery Hill in Fort Worden. The battery held two 10 inch guns. This is the covered corridor beneath the battery that leads to the magazines for the guns. These old gun emplacements are fun to explore. They are unlit and some of the chambers and corridors [...]
Last Sunday offered a special bonus. As I went down to the waterfront to take some pictures of the Wooden Boat Show sailout, some old cars were pulling into Memorial Stadium, downtown. It turned out that some two dozen old cars, all manufactured before 1920 were parked on the field. They all were in amazing [...]
This is one of the old artillery bunkers facing the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Fort Worden, which was one of three forts built around the mouth of Puget Sound to deny access to potential enemy ships.
The Port Townsend Marine Science Center occupies two buildings in Fort Worden State Park. The one on the pier is the Marine Exhibits building. It hosts exhibits displaying a variety of intertidal plants and animals indigenous to Puget Sound.
