Named for a wealthy Englishman, Peter Kirk, who established the town to support a steel mill he was building here in the late 1880s. He envisioned his little town would become the “Pittsburgh of the West.”
Due to the stock market crash of 1893, his Moss Bay Iron and Steel Works never opened. Although it never became the “Pittsburgh” he envisioned it is the 14th most populated city in Washington, and a great waterfront haven for a wonderful vacation. |