Aberdeen Lures Big Shipyard with Eastern Capital
A new industry promises $50,000 in investment and jobs for 250 men by next summer.
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The highly gratifying intelligence has just been received here that Aberdeen is to have a big ship yard. A telegram announcing this important fact arrived on Sunday and is to the effect that Mr. Johnson, who went east two weeks ago to induce a large ship builder to locate at Aberdeen, had been successful, and the parties will arrive here before the last of the month. This scheme has been mentioned before, and if the business is established, of which there now seems no doubt, a ship building plant worth $50,000 and employing over two hundred and fifty men will be in operation within the coming summer.
“Aberdeen is fairly and squarely at the head of the procession for everything that goes to build up a thriving metropolis on Grays harbor.”
The late 19th-century 'booster' culture of Aberdeen saw shipyards as the key to economic independence. Today, the town reflects on this industrial past as it transitions toward a different economic model, still grappling with the legacy of large-scale manufacturing infrastructure on the harbor.
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