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Union is an unincorporated census-designated place in Mason County, Washington, lying along the southern shore of the Great Bend of Hood Canal near the mouth of the Skokomish River.

The town of Union was founded and named in 1858 by the merchants Willson and Anderson, and logging pioneer John McReavy platted it as Union City in 1889.

Union City was once envisioned as the western terminus of a transcontinental railroad, but the Union Pacific Railroad abandoned the project after the Panic of 1893.

In the early twentieth century Union was home to Olympus Manor, the first non-Native artist colony in Washington, which flourished until the manor burned in 1952.

The 2020 census counted 683 residents in Union, up from 631 in 2010, the first census in which Union appeared as a census-designated place.

From Union, the Olympic Mountains peaks of Mount Washington, Mount Constance, and the Brothers rise across Hood Canal and are visible from almost any point in the community.

In 2010 Forbes Traveler named Union one of America's twenty prettiest towns, and visitors come for boating, fishing, shellfishing, sea kayaking, and birding on the Hood Canal fjord, as well as its golf course, marinas, and working farm and roadside market.