Welcome to City of DuPont

DuPont a former company town for a DuPont dynamite plant, the town which bears the company name lies off Interstate 5 between Tacoma and Olympia and borders Ft. Lewis US Army Base

American Indians lived here as early as 5,000 years ago, and the area was first seen by outsiders in 1792 when British Captain George Vancouver and a party of explorers cruised down the body of water he named Puget Sound.

The area attracted the first non-native settlement in the Puget Sound region, Fort Nisqually, a Hudson's Bay Company trading post built in 1833.

In 1869, the U.S. Government bought the site and opened it for settlement. The DuPont company bought 3200 acres for a dynamite manufacturing plant and company town. The building that houses the DuPont Historical Museum was a butcher shop and later the city hall.

DuPont is part of the Pierce County-Tacoma, WA metro area