Geographically isolated at the tip of the Quimper Peninsula on the Olympic Peninsula, Port Townsend is surrounded on three sides by bodies of water. In the days of sailing ships, Port Townsends strategic location at the entrance to Puget Sound provided an

1. The Puget Sound Customs Collection District was moved to Port Townsend in 1854, just three years after the town was founded. Every vessel entering Puget Sound from any foreign port had to make its first stop at Port Townsend. Many shipmasters made Port T tid:2642 (1) (hivelink)