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This park has a picturesque lighthouse, covered in picturesque Seagull ****. Built in 1879, it was NOT named for Russell.
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Canada's up that way, you can see it on a clear day...
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When they built an Army post here in 1898 they still wore Civil War style uniforms.
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The idea of course was to protect the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard from invaders...
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...MOST likely at that point to be the British, who'd just built a fort on Vancouver Island.
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There was a whole lot of Marching Up and Down the Square going on, but they never did fire a shot in anger.
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Later, Richard Gere and Debra Winger fired some shots of their own here in the 1982 film "An Officer and a Gentleman".
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The movie theater isn't getting much use these days, but it's been a State Park since the Army bugged out in 1952.
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But a lot of the Army is still here...the Zeppelin is gone, but the hangar remains.
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And now that it's fall, it's a hell of a lot easier to get a campsite here!