Port Gamble

The Kitsap peninsula where Elissa lives is full of quaint little towns each with its own unique personality.  They make nice little day trips as they are all within an hour's drive.  Port Gamble is a lumber mill town.  The town and mill were started in 1853 and the town was built to look like the home town of the mill founders, East Machias, Maine. Until 1995, Port Gamble was the site of the oldest continuously operating sawmill in North America.  

 

The tree in the foreground of the mill on the bay is a Camperdown Elm.  

You could walk inside the branches of the tree and it was like being under an inverted bowl.

The mill still owns the town and all the houses.  So all the houses are all well preserved - most are being used as little shops.  They had a really interesting general store and museum.