Puget Sound · WA

Kingston

"King's Town" on Appletree Cove.

Population
2,515 (2020 census)
Founded
1853
Platted
1890

Then

  1. 1853

    Benjamin Bannister founds the settlement at Appletree Cove.

  2. 1879

    Michael King buys a cabin and logs the area. The joke name King's Town sticks.

  3. 1890

    The Kingston townsite is platted on April 24.

Now

State ferries run to Edmonds, and fast passenger ferries to Seattle came back in 2018. This place includes Port Jefferson.

2 tide stations around Kingston

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