About DuPont WA
DuPont, WA: Welcoming for over 5,000 years
DuPont can trace its history back over 5,000 years from the Nisqually Tribe that once populated this area where modern day DuPont resides. Several artifacts dating back this far, including Chief Seattle's fishing pole, are on display in the town's Museum which was once the town's butcher shop and later City Hall.
The vision for Northwest Landing was to create an urban village where economically diverse residents could walk or bike to local restaurants, shops and nearby workplaces, such as Intel Corp., State Farm Insurance, Fort Lewis, or Venture Bank.
The quaint city of DuPont started as a company town with over one hundred houses, a butcher shop and a hotel, built by explosives manufacturer E.I du Pont de Nemours Co. in 1906. The residents were allowed to purchase their homes in 1951, at which time the city was incorporated.
Some of the residents that still live in DuPont were former workers at the DuPont Powderworks Plant stand as a testimony of the appeal of the area to stay here even though the plant no longer exists. Ironically, homes that are being built in DuPont (and across America) utilize a whole house wrap TyVek (R) material designed by the DuPont company and the original powerworks site still exists in some form as the new golf course design was incorporated into some of the original structures. Even more amazing is that within the area of The Home Course Golf Course you can see the original historical 1833 site of Fort Nisqually and the infamous Wilkes Observatory in "The Back 9". Click here to learn more history of DuPont online and see a timeline of our town history.
The City of DuPont currently has a population of just over 7,500 resident since a steady population of 384 between 1909 and 1970, most of which are military. The area known as the Historic Village was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. DuPont City Hall was once a general store, and its cupola is from Laughbon High School, which was once part of the DuPont School District.
DuPont's charming small-town character, tree-lined streets and distinctive Craftsman-style architecture have all been incorporated into Northwest Landing's design, a point that has sold many new homeowners. Northwest Landing's homes emphasize porches rather than garages. Today's home buyers want more than a house. They want a neighborhood where they can put down roots. They want to feel connected to their neighbors and participate in their community.
Northwest Landing is an award winning 3,000-acre mixed use planned community located in the City of DuPont, Washington. Land uses include industrial, office and commercial development, homes, schools, parks, open space and trails. There are nearly 30 miles of paved trails winding in and out of the numerous neighborhoods. It incorporates 1,000 acres of residential neighborhoods, 1,000 acres of open space with 1,000 acres zoned for commercial/industrial use.
Rather than having a series of suburban subdivisions and unrelated office and industrial parks, Northwest Landing was planned from the outset to grow into a cohesive community. Master planning requires a regional vision where the "part" becomes a piece of the "whole."
DuPont continues to grow, but will never grow beyond the boundaries of nature and the governmental land surrounding it, thus keeping it isolated from urban overgrowth in nearby towns.
About DuPontWA.com
Your Webmaster
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This website was started by DuPont, WA resident
Mike Culley
back in July
2005. After living in DuPont for just over a year it was difficult
to find one source to turn to that had all the latest news, event information and other
community related services in one place. The City of DuPont has a website, as
does the Northwest
Landing Owner's Association along with several others that keep appearing all the
time. One day I decided I would use my professional web developer skills to create a website for
our community that would be the one source of all this information and as luck would have it the domain name was available and so I began building the site ever since adding new features and content to help promote our town.
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DuPontWA.com continues to set the standard as
"The BEST source of community information for DuPont, WA" over all others and can support that
statement because this website continues to appear as the top search result from search
engines like Google, MSN
and Yahoo year after year. This website even outranks the city's
official government domain website in search results, which is a feat very few websites
are able to accomplish, thanks to my knowledge of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
I hope that you enjoy coming to DuPont whether for a day trip, a three year tour, or to
settle down and make roots. You can depend on this website to be the best source of
current information about what is going on in DuPont and have as much accurate information
as possible. Remember that the site is controlled by a human, and humans can make
mistakes. If you see an error in information or links, please report it.
Revenue sources for this website:
Though the cost to keep this website up and going is relatively small, there is overhead
to continue to ensure the content is fresh and new features are developed to make the site
more and more appealing. Money is generated through click-through advertising
provided by Yahoo
Publisher Network, Kontera, and Bidvertiser. Another source of revenue for this site comes from Text-Link-Ads
which appear on the far right of most pages on this website. All monies received
from these sources pay for the site to be online, prizes for contests, advertising,
and contributions to organizations or charities in the name of DuPontWA.com. Anything left
over goes to me to pay for a sandwich or two at Subway. If the website has helped you,
help keep the website online. Donations are always appreciated too!
Givebacks to the community:
1. Host and primary sponsor for annual Golden
Egg Hunt held in the Spring.
2. Keeping DuPont clean by sponsoring a section of DuPont's streets along Center Drive under the city's Adopt-a-Street
program between I-5 off-ramp at Exit 118 and McNeil Street.
3. FREE webpages to all DuPont WA businesses who want them and allowing them complete control
over the content to advertise and market their business.
4. FREE webpages to
local DuPont WA clubs and organizations who want them and allowing them complete control
over the content to market their club and publicize their events.
5. FREE "instant" DuPont WA classified advertising for website users.
6. FREE DuPont WA event
announcement information webpages for organizations in the community.
7. Providing fast and informative information to the community and promoting the town of DuPont, WA!
Hope to see you around the community!
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