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Purdy, Washington
Purdy is a small unincorporated community north of the city of Gig Harbor, on the northern boundary of Pierce County, Washington. It is located on the shores of Burley Lagoon and Henderson Bay, Washington of the Carr Inlet. The two bodies of water are separated by a sandspit and the Purdy Bridge, all within the Puget Sound.
In the 1880s, the community was named for a Tacoma, Washington businessman who donated the materials to construct a schoolhouse for the community. Joseph W. Purdy was a grocer by trade.〔Peninsula Historical Society, and The Tacoma Times, June 11, 1948〕 Social activities often took place in local schoolhouses when they weren't being used for academics. The second Purdy Schoolhouse was built in 1900 to replace the original one that was abandoned in the 1890s (located on Sherman Avenue, or current day 68th Avenue in Purdy, WA). Students spent every other semester at either the Purdy Schoolhouse, or the Wauna Schoolhouse in order to keep both schools active. This small inlet is still referred to by locals as the "Mill Pond".
In 1886, the mill in Purdy secured the first contract to provide lumber for nearby Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton.〔The Tacoma Times, June 11, 1948〕 This put Purdy on the map. The U.S. Government needed huge square timbers with one edge beveled in order to build a wooden drydock at Charleston (Bremerton). "All other mills based their costs on four trips of the carriage to remove the slabs, then an extra trip to cut the bevel. A mechanic at the Purdy mill set up an extra saw to cut the bevel on the fourth trip of the carriage, thus enabling the company to outbid all competition. The big cutting contract put Purdy on the map, and it was known as a 'brawling mill town' around 1886."[Washington Corrections Center for Women, originally named the Purdy Treatment Center, is colloquially referred to as "Purdy", though it has a Gig Harbor address.]
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