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South side of 3 Crabs Road, east of Sequim-Dungeness Avenue
This was the homestead of James and Mary Smith Pettett from about 1890. Mary was the first midwife of the area, and helped bring many pioneer children into this world. In the 1940s this barn was built on the land next to the historic house.
In 1866 the first county jail was built on Marine Drive in New Dungeness, and was then moved slightly east to this land. It was square with a flat roof and no windows. The prisoner would be put in though a trap door in the roof, and would have meals lowered down to him. Without a ladder, there would be no escape. Later generations would have great fun playing cops-and-robbers around the old structure.
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