Gettysburg - Washington Ghost Town

GETTYSBURG

NAME: Gettysburg
COUNTY: Clallam
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 6
CLIMATE: Cool winter and summer.
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime.

COMMENTS: Railroad byspassing the town killed it.
REMAINS: Many original buildings.

Robert N. Getty, a prosperous Pennsylvania farmer and lumberman, homesteaded a huge piece of land during the late 1880s and named it Gettysburg. He opened a general store, obtained a post office and encouraged logging firms to build skid roads to Gettysburg as a shipping port. As the town grew, Getty built a new store, the Gettysburg Hotel, a new boathouse and warehouse. He donated land for a schoolhouse and cemetery. In 1908, a road connected Gettysburg with Port Crescent. However, the railroad and new county road, both running parallel to Gettysburg about five miles inland, usurped the town's seaport business and people moved away. The post office was discontinued in 1920. Today, no one would ever know a thriving community existed at Gettysburg. Submitted by Henry Chenowith.

Robert N. Getty, a prosperous Pennsylvania farmer and lumberman, homesteaded a huge piece of land during the late 1880s and named it Gettysburg. He opened a general store, obtained a post office and encouraged logging firms to build skid roads to Gettysburg as a shipping port. As the town grew, Getty built a new store, the Gettysburg Hotel, a new boathouse and warehouse. He donated land for a schoolhouse and cemetery. In 1908, a road connected Gettysburg with Port Crescent. However, the railroad and new county road, both running parallel to Gettysburg about five miles inland, usurped the town's seaport business and people moved away. The post office was discontinued in 1920. Today, no one would ever know a thriving community existed at Gettysburg. Submitted by Henry Chenowith.

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