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2 stories matching elect

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  1. The Creosote Fortress: How a New Plant Aimed to Save Seattle’s Piers from the 'Teredo'

    A massive industrial complex rises six miles north of downtown, promising to protect the city's wooden infrastructure from the destructive shipworm.

    Jan 30, 1889The Seattle Post-IntelligencerCreosote, Bainbridge Island, Kitsap CountyBoom & Bust · Gone Forever

  2. A Body in the Ashes at Rolling Bay

    An eyewitness to the coroner's inquest corrects the Post-Intelligencer's lurid account of a bullet-scarred, half-burned corpse found in a shack on Bainbridge Island — and lays out his own theory of an unsolved Kitsap County killing.

    Jan 15, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerRolling Bay, Bainbridge Island, Kitsap CountyTrue Crime

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