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UPCOMING EVENTS
HOURS & DIRECTIONS
WHO WE ARE
OUR HISTORY
MEMBERSHIP
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Education Committee
WALKING TOURS
2008 ANNUAL REPORT
AUTUMN 2009 NEWSLETTER
LINKS
Some of
the photographs in the upcoming
Images of America book featuring the Olympic Mountains.
Images of America: Port Townsend
Images of America: Jefferson County
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Winter Hours
at the Jefferson County Museum
During January and February, the Jefferson County Museum in historic
City Hall, 540 Water Street, Port Townsend, will be open on weekends
only, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Exceptions are Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Monday January 18),
Lincoln’s Birthday, (Friday February 12), and President’s Day,
(Monday February 15). The museum will be open on those holidays.
OUT
WITH THE OLD Sale in the Museum Shop
Through February, visit the Museum Gift Shop in old City
Hall at 540 Water Street
and receive 30% off most items throughout the shop, including jewelry, cards, clothing, shawls, tea pots and more.
EXHIBIT SHOWCASES
HORACE TUCKER'S TOOLS
More than 225 hand tools used
to build many of Port Townsend's earliest homes are featured in
a new exhibit in the JCHS Museum that opened November 21. For
a map of some of the structures believed to have been built by
Horace Tucker CLICK HERE.
 Horace
Tucker joined his father—also a carpenter—in Port Townsend when he
was 19 years old. His tools were stored in two large wooden trunks
that connect with a centerpiece to make a 10-foot workbench. More than 80 hand planes and several trays of carving,
upholstery and carpentry tools will be on display, as well as
information about the homes and buildings known to be Tucker's work.
These include the Rothschild House, Fowler House and St. Paul's
Episcopal Church, where he married Mary Jane Caines on August 27,
1867.
Tucker was one of the
principal founders of the Quimper Manufacturing Company which
produced house finishing products. They started manufacturing brick
in 1889; producing almost all of the bricks used in Port Townsend
structures.
Tucker also served as deputy collector and inspector of United
States Customs for twenty years, was a member of the Washington
State legislature and was elected mayor in 1892. He and Mary Jane
had four children. He lived to be 99 years old.
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