Tse-whit-zen
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Tse-whit-zen is a 1700 to 2700 year old Klallam village on the Port Angeles, Washington waterfront. A project for a graving dock was ironically discovered in 2004 to have been sited to include the village's cemetery. Over 10,000 artifacts and more than 335 intact skeletons have been unearthed to date. The Washington State Department of Transportation decided to halt all construction efforts relating to the graving dock on December 21, 2004 and is currently undertaking only those steps required to ensure the preservation of remains and artifacts already uncovered by the construction. The graving dock had been being built for the construction of replacement pontoons for the Hood Canal Bridge of Washington State Route 104.
External links
- [Tse-whit-zen Village News]
- [Seattle Times article]
- [Washington: Construction of the Port Angeles Graving Dock] Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
- [Port Angeles Graving Dock Report - WSDOT]
- [Review of Port Angeles Graving Dock Project - Transportation Performance Audit Board (pdf file)]
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