Products Made in Washington

Washington's industry began with timber and salmon. Sawmills and canneries lined Puget Sound and the coast in the late 1800s, and Seattle grew as the supply port for the Klondike gold rush in 1897. Aircraft plants in Seattle and Everett made the state a center of aviation from World War II on, and the Navy yard in Bremerton built and repaired warships. Dams on the Columbia River powered aluminum smelters through the middle of the century. Filson has made outdoor clothing in Seattle since 1897, and its Mackinaw wool coats are still made in the US. Rite in the Rain makes all-weather notebooks in Tacoma, where Brown and Haley has made Almond Roca in a former shoe factory since 1919. G. Loomis builds graphite fishing rods in Woodland, StopBox makes handgun lockboxes in Spokane Valley, and Chukar Cherries dries cherries in Prosser. Blue Jeans Cable assembles cables in Seattle, and Pendleton runs a weaving mill in Washougal.