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There were logging towns, and then there were towns like Shelton. Sending old growth logs down flumes to Puget Sound, transporting them out by rail and later milling them in town drove the development of this town situated in huge tracts of dense and giant trees. To this day, saws still buzz here.
The eastern side of Puget Sound saw a lot of the old growth trees logged there, as the early settlements started to turn into towns and cities. The sparsely inhabited Olympic peninsula was opening up just as milling and transportation technologies were improving. Today, ironically, a lot of land in the area is devoted to much smaller trees - Christmas tree farms are big here. The increase of populated areas around the entire Puget Sound region has seen Shelton change over the years from a one horse to a multi-horse town, especially with the rise of tourism as an important part of the Olympic Peninsula economy. View Shelton City Guide