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Port Townsend is a quiet Victorian seaport at the tip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, so peaceful it seems worlds away from the hustle and bustle of big city life, yet it's only a short drive and a delightful ferry ride to Seattle.
Many famous Victorian homes have been converted into bed and breakfast inns, such as the Starret House as shown in the picture, making Port Townsend the bed and breakfast capital of the Pacific Northwest.
Port Townsend was a busy seaport during the 1800s and most of that eras' original architecture has remained. Port Townsend is one of only three Victorian seaports in the U.S. on the National Historic Register.
Fort Worden State Park, with its camping, dormitories, Officer's Row accommodations, serves as a cultural and convention center, and home of Centrum, a non-profit center for the arts and creative education. The movie, An Officer and a Gentleman, was filmed in Port Townsend using Fort Worden and many downtown businesses as settings.
Port Townsend is surrounded by water - the Straits of Juan de Fuca, Admiralty inlet, and Discovery Bay. So it's little wonder that we have so many water sports - fishing, sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, scuba diving, and of course, beach combing.
If you would like to learn more about the area, here are some links to more websites about the Port Townsend area. These links will open a new browser window, which you can close to return to the Hadlock Realty website.
