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  • Billy Nations

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When boring is not boring

Feb 2023
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Billy Nations

All the shotguns you see here evolved from the less reliable and less effective guns of an earlier period to the reliably accurate and artistic designs of modern firearms. All it took was a little-known gunsmith with some knowledge and patience to change the shotgun forever. You can see several shotguns at the B.W. Weapons Museum at Historic Washington State Park in...

North Wall of the B.W. Weapons Museum at Historic Washington State Park with shotguns

You Couldn’t Make This Story Up!

Feb 2023
  ⁄  
Billy Nations

Black History Month is upon us, we think it appropriate to remind our would-be visitors to Historic Washington State Park of the program opportunities that lay in store for them as related to the African-American component of the Washington story.

Distant view of courthouse at Historic Washington State Park
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