File:Port Ludlow, Puget Sound, W T (MAPS 69).jpg

Lithograph.

North oriented to right.

Printed in center of bottom: "Port Ludlow, Puget Sound, W.T. Amos, Phinney & Co's Mills. {Z. Amos. A. Phinney. W. H. Hooke.} 1200 feet of Wharf frontage. 40 feet of water at low tide."

Printed in bottom border in lower left corner: "C. B. Gifford del. Et lith."

Printed in bottom border in lower right corner: "[illegible] by L. Nagel."

Written in pencil in lower right corner: "File Phinney's Mill."

Depicts Port Ludlow in detail, showing Port Ludlow Bay and the Amos, Phinney and Company's lumber mill operation. Shows the wharf, log pond, sailing ships in the bay, the mill, buildings, and the Olympic Mountains in the distance.

Charles B. Gifford was an itinerant cartographer who drew "birds-eye" perspective maps for various cities around the country. Louis Nagel was frequently the printer of his work. In 1853, William Sayward, a San Francisco businessman, built the Port Ludlow mill (Ficken, 14). In 1858, the mill was leased to Amos, Phinney and Company under the management of Phinney. According to the US Census, in 1860, the town was composed of about 120 individuals. The area did not change until the 1870s, when the Puget Mill Company bought the mill and remodeled it (Ficken, 127-8). By 1886, the mill at Port Ludlow had grown in production. In the first business quarter of that year, the Puget Mill Company shipped seven million feet in lumber (Ficken, 180-1). Source(s): Ficken, Robert E. "Washington Territory." Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 2002.

• Subjects (LCSH): Port Ludlow (Wash.)-Aerial views-Maps; Port Ludlow (Wash.)-Pictorial works
• Categories: Bird's eye view; Pacific Northwest