By Harriet Muhrlein

The final installment in a June 1890 magazine article about Kingston, titled “Kingston, The Monterey of Washington.”

The town of Kingston makes no pretensions of becoming a great railroad center. It is, however, situated on the proposed line running from Tacoma to Port Townsend.

The town will receive much of its sustenance from the summer traffic, though large manufacturers, like the Northwest Paint Company, also a saw mill and shingle mill and pressed birch manufactory, are figuring to put extensive plants for manufacturing upon the waterfront.

When baths are completed there will be regular excursions to Kingston, and those who have visited this charming little cove will agree with the writer that this will one day be the greatest health resort and country seat of the state of Washington.

The photo is of the engine and coal car on the railroad that ran short distances from various locations in the forests of North Kitsap in the 1920s. Logs were taken to the log dump located at a site on Port Gamble Bay. It is the only known railroad in the area.

— The Kingston Historical Society meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month, 10 a.m., in the Kingston Community Center Indianola Room. We need new guests or members to add to the history.