The first of approximately 1,200 pilings are being pulled up this week at the site of the old Dickman Mill, on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024 in Tacoma, Wash. (Brian Hayes/bhayes@thenewstribune.com) Crews have ...

Walkers along Tacoma’s Ruston Way and sunbathers at Titlow Beach have seen them for decades: pilings — the aquatic cousins of telephone poles. Once used to support wharves and piers, many of the ...

MARYSVILLE, Wash. — Boats maneuvered to where workers lifted the last of nearly 300 creosote-soaked pilings Friday, completing a portion of a broader project to restore salmon in the Snohomish River. ...

The first center-bearing swing bridge at Point Street opened in 1872 and could pivot open to allow transport ships and ferries to steam upriver.