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moyompya t1_j7775gs wrote

Thanks to Grays Harbor, I don’t think there needed to be much settlement on Washington’s coast to link the Puget Sound to California.

Being like the largest harbor between here and San Francisco, it also had Chehalis River providing a direct route into the prairies of the South Sound.

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ac19723 t1_j7cy3ba wrote

And also the port is one day closer to Asia than any other port on the west coast.

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