DuPont is a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The population was 8,199 at the 2010 census. Originally a company town, the city is named after the DuPont chemical company which operated an explosives manufacturing tree-plant in the area from 1909 to 1975.

For 10,000 years the Nisqually Tribe lived in relative friendship and wealth in its aboriginal homeland of approximately two million acres close the present-day towns of Olympia, Tenino, and DuPont, and extending to Mount Rainier. Tribal life distorted radically next the advent of Euro-American treaty about 150 years ago. Forced to compromise its interests and rights greater than the years, the Tribe always sought to maintain its integrity and dignity. Subsisting upon shellfish from the beaches and salmon from Sequalitchew Creek. Captain George Vancouver mapped the Place in 1792, and in 1833, the Hudson’s Bay Company established a fur trading reveal at Fort Nisqually as a halfway lessening between Ft. Vancouver and Ft. Langley. The fort was relocated upstream in 1843. It was relocated to expand upon the fort to home more workers and to have better entrance to light water. Charles Wilkes of the United States Exploring Expedition
held the first American Independence Day celebration west of the Mississippi River in the present-day DuPont area on July 5, 1841.

The first studious in the area was the Nisqually Methodist Mission school, which operated from 1840 through 1842. Chloe A. Clark was appointed college at the school. The first public educational was traditional in 1852. By 1869 the Hudson Bay Company had to sell the home to the U.S. government for $650,000.
The Oregon Treaty of 1846 gave the land of the Oregon Territory to the U.S. but yet allowed the HBC to continue enthusiastic in the area. American farmers in the area resented this decision and pushed out the company by establishing their own present place and squatting upon company land. By 1865 there were just about 150 illegal squatters on company property who would harass the livestock of the Hudson’s Bay Company. A few of the farmers urged Congress to sever the fort as well as the Puget Sound Agricultural Company from the Pacific Northwest. These conditions made it hard to continue operations in the region correspondingly the fort was closed.

The house was taking place for grabs taking into consideration Hudson’s Bay Company left and many farmers bought the land. In 1906, the DuPont chemical company purchased a 5-square-mile (13 km²) area from the farmers for construction of an explosives plant, as the company was accompanied by expanding into the west. The plant was built upon the initial 1833 Ft. Nisqually site and was completed in 1909. During its approximately 70-year history, the forest produced dynamite for the U.S. military as with ease as for the construction of various civilian projects including the Grand Coulee Dam, the Alcan Highway, and the Panama Canal.

A company town was set in the works about a mile east of the explosives manufacturing facility. By 1909, the village had two houses for the plant managers and 58 houses for the workers, which increased to on zenith of 100 houses by the fall of 1917. The village was re-designated as the town of DuPont upon March 26, 1912, but it was not officially incorporated as a town until 1951, when the company started selling the houses to the employees. The original company town, roughly bounded by Santa Cruz St, Penniman St, Brandywine Ave, and DuPont Ave, was supplementary to the National Register of Historic Places as the DuPont Village Historic District in 1987.