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The city of Sequim (pronounced “s’kwim”) is located along the Dungeness River at the base of the Olympic Mountains, on the north Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. The first European to arrive in the Dungeness Valley region was Spanish explorer Ensign Manuel Quimper, who entered the Strait of Juan de Fuca in 1790 but did not settle there. The valley’s first settlers came in the 1850’s; they included pioneers from New England, the South, and the Midwest, as well as more Europeans. The area that would become Sequim had an unexpected climate that brought little rain, and it wasn’t until the town’s first settlers established irrigation canals in the 1890’s that the arid prairies would be ripe for farming. One of Sequim’s unique crops is lavender; the city is known as the “Lavender Capital of North America” and has over 25 lavender farms. Sequim residents celebrate their agricultural past and present with two yearly festivals—the 111 year-old Irrigation Festival and the Sequim Lavender Festival.