DuPont: I-5 @ MP 118.9: Steilacoom - SB
Among the communities of Washington’s South Sound, DuPont stands out for its beginnings as a planned company town beside the Nisqually River delta. The community developed around a DuPont explosives works established in the early 20th century, and its name remains a link to that industrial past. Today it lies on the Interstate 5 corridor between Olympia and Tacoma, where residential areas, services and forested land meet the freeway. Nearby, the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge protects estuary habitat where the Nisqually River reaches Puget Sound. DuPont is also associated with the original Fort Nisqually site, founded in 1833 as a Hudson’s Bay Company trading post before the fort was relocated to Tacoma.
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DuPont combines the ordered character of a former company town with a coastal setting near the Nisqually River estuary, reflecting its position on southern Puget Sound. The community was founded in 1909 by E. I. du Pont de Nemours as a town for workers at its nearby explosives plant, an origin that still distinguishes it from many newer Puget Sound suburbs. The Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge protects extensive tidal-marsh habitat to the south, while the city’s Sequalitchew Creek Trail leads through woodland toward the shore. Between Tacoma and Olympia, DuPont sits where military, industrial and estuarine landscapes meet. View additional webcams nearby to better understand how DuPont relates to southern Puget Sound and the Nisqually delta.
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