Throughout 2023 the Sunday Olympian’s Looking Back theme was origins of area place names. Dofflemyer Point and the Dofflemyer lighthouse take their name from the Dofflemyer family, early settlers in the Boston Harbor area. Pictured here is Isaac Dofflemyer, in a charcoal portrait.
unknown creator or date, Courtesy State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog 1956.20.2
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2023