A vibrant chapter of South Sound history was brought to life Sunday in DuPont. Organizers say about 500 people turned out for the annual Hudson Bay Day and Salmon BBQ, which featured antique guns, ...

TACOMA, Wash - Metro Park Tacoma is looking for public input on the future of Fort Nisqually. The board recently approved the Point Defiance Park Master Plan, so the next phase is public meetings to ...

Museum location: 5400 N. Pearl St., No. 11 (Point Defiance Park), Tacoma. Permanent displays: Long before Seattle was established, the Hudson’s Bay Co. of London, a vast fur-trading enterprise, ...

The Fort Nisqually Living History Museum in Point Defiance Park gives visitors a chance to learn about what life was like around Puget Sound in 1855. For history enthusiasts looking to travel back in ...

Fort Nisqually’s Bonfires, Beaver Pelts & Bogeymen Halloween Storytelling: Follow a trail of jack o’lanterns to a bonfire and storytellers, 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Fort Nisqually Living History Museum ...

Period actors dressed in home-sewn clothing churned butter, cooked over open fires, sang and danced to show hundreds of visitors what Christmas might have been like at Fort Nisqually. The Metro Parks ...

The Fort Nisqually Living History Museum at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Park has reopened its giant wooden gates after a two-month hiatus. The museum was closed while the state Department of Ecology ...

Visitors to Fort Nisqually Living History Museum Saturday can get a feeling of what it was like to be a settler in springtime in the 1850s. From 11 a.m.-5 p.m., the museum will hold “Sewing to Sowing: ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD — It’s in a pretty sorry location, this granite monument to the first official Fourth of July celebration held west of the Mississippi. The background for the marker consists ...

Lighten up: Visitors can step back in time on candlelight tours of Fort Nisqually in October, but first, they need to get tickets. Tickets are available now for the popular tours, which take place in ...

January 1st, 1850-May 31st, 1850 -- June 1st, 1850-November 30th, 1850 -- December 1st 1850-May 31st, 1851 -- June 1st 1851-November 30th, 1851 -- December 1st, 1851 ...