Arcadia, Washington

Arcadia, Washington
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 47°11′53″N122°56′26″W / 47.19806°N 122.94056°W / 47.19806; -122.94056
Country	United States
State	Washington
County	Mason
Elevation [1]	33 ft (10 m)
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
GNIS feature ID	1510785 [1]

Arcadia, Washington is an unincorporated community in Mason County, Washington, ^[2] which is located on southwest Puget Sound on a point of land which extends between Hammersley Inlet on the north and Totten Inlet on the south. It is situated between Olympia, Washington and Shelton, Washington.

History

Two steamboats are reported to have been built at Arcadia, the Arcadia (built 1889, 40 tons), and Biz (built 1881, 70 ft or 21.3 m, 80 gross tons).

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Arcadia, Washington
2. "Arcadia". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.

• Findlay, Jean Cammon, and Paterson, Robin, Mosquito Fleet of South Puget Sound, Arcadia Publishing (2008) ISBN   0-7385-5607-6.
• Newell, Gordon R., Ships of the Inland Sea -- The Story of the Puget Sound Steamboats, Binford & Mort (2d Ed. 1960)
• Wright, E.W., Lewis & Dryden's Marine history of the Pacific Northwest, Lewis & Dryden Printing Co., Portland, OR (1895)