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Sequim, Washington
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The name Sequim, pronounced as one syllable "skwim," in S'Klallam means "a place for going to shoot," which represents the abundance of game and wildlife of the area.
Sequim (population 6,606) is located along the Dungeness River near the base and within the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains. It lies fairly close to some of the wettest temperate rainforests of the contiguous United States, but receives on average less than 16 inches (410 mm) of rain per year—about the same as Los Angeles, California—and has given itself the nickname of Sunny Sequim. This climate anomaly is sometimes called the blue hole of Sequim.
Fogs and cool breezes from the Juan de Fuca Strait make Sequim's environment more humid than would be expected from the low average annual precipitation.
The city and the surrounding area are particularly known for the commercial cultivation of lavender, supported by the unique climate: it makes Sequim the "Lavender Capital of North America", rivaled only in France. The area is also known for its Dungeness crab.
The S'Klallam tribe had inhabited the region prior to the arrival of the first Europeans. S'Klallam means "the strong people". The band of S'Klallam Indians disbanded into their own individual federally recognized tribes in the early 1900s. The local Tribe is the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe named after one of their early leaders, Lord James Balch. Both Manuel Quimper and George Vancouver explored the region's coast in the 1790s.
Sequim was officially incorporated on October 31, 1913. For many decades small farms, mostly dairy farms, dotted the area around the small town. Near the end of World War I, Sequim became a stop for a railway which passed through from Port Angeles to Port Townsend, built primarily to carry wood products from the forests of the western Olympic Peninsula.