Memorial Presbyterian Church was dedicated on September 13, 1913, under the leadership of Reverend Thomas J. Weekes, who had been teaching and preaching on the Peninsula since 1893, and the church site was donated by the Gustafson family. Over the years, the building was owned by various congregations and extensively remodeled. The area just up the hill once served as a town park with a baseball field where the local team played nearby rivals, including Key Peninsula. Near this corner stood Gig Harbor's main well on land deeded to the town by H.R. Thurston. Thurston and his wife, Asta, owned a large section of the area, where he built his electric shop facing today's Harborview Drive, along with upstairs living quarters, a storage shed, garage, and Asta's little house. Those buildings still stand and house several Gig Harbor village green businesses. Thurston was an electrical contractor who sold and repaired appliances, owned a generator that produced electricity for sale within close range, and installed some of the first electrical control panels in local fishing boats. He served as the town's justice of the peace from the early 1920s until the modernized justice court system was established in 1962, then remained a judge until his retirement in 1967.