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Pacific Creosoting Company was a company founded on Bainbridge Island that treated logs with creosote as a preservative.

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Pacific Creosoting Company

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Pacific Creosoting Company was a company founded on Bainbridge Island that treated logs with creosote as a preservative. It began operations as The Perfection...

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park. The Pacific Creosoting Company, later known as Wyckoff Company, occupied the site until the 1980s, and supported the community of Creosote. Government...

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Commerce in Seattle, and formed Pacific Creosoting Company on Bainbridge Island in 1906. A tanker which supplied creosote from Europe to this plant was...

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Coleman Company (1909); West Coast Wood Preserving Company (jointly owned by J. M. Coleman Co. and Pacific Creosoting) (1930); Baxter-Wyckoff Company (1959);...

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certain societies, particularly in the Austronesian cultures of the Western Pacific where it features in their mythologies, songs, and oral traditions. The...

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and Member of Parliament for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities King Creosote – musician Andrew Kirkaldy – racing driver and managing director of McLaren...

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the original on 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2010-03-12. McCormick & Baxter Creosoting Co. (Portland Plant) "Superfund Information Systems: Site Progress Profile"...

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preserving timber by chloride of zinc, and afterwards the application of creosote for that purpose, proved severe competitors. Doubts began to be expressed...

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