Although DuPont is a product of the 20th century, Native Americans resided in this area 5,000 years ago. The first Europeans gazed upon the Puget Sound shoreline in 1792. The Hudson's Bay Company built a storehouse at the mouth of Sequalitchew Creek in 1832, and a year later constructed Fort Nisqually, a trading post that became the nucleus of early European settlement in the region. Puget Sound's first steamship, the side-wheeler S.S. Beaver, began serving the fort in 1837. Two years later Americans established the Nisqually Methodist Episcopal Mission, attracting the first U.S. citizens. Learn More...