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Aberdeen is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. Aberdeen was founded by early settler Samuel Benn when he had a plat filed in 1884. The population was 16,461 at the 2000 census. The city is the economic center of Grays Harbor County, bordering the cities of Hoquiam and Cosmopolis. Aberdeen is sometimes called the "Gateway to the Olympic Peninsula" or the "Birthplace of Grunge," because of the founders of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic, coming from the city. Other notable musicians from Aberdeen include Dale Crover of The Melvins, and Chris Freeman of Pansy Division.

Aberdeen is the homeport of the tall ship Lady Washington, a reproduction of a smaller vessel used by the explorer Captain Robert Gray, which is featured in the two Pirates of the Caribbean movies (The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and Dead Man's Chest (2006)).

On May 9, 2006 Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes came to Aberdeen for a contest involving a special screening of Mission Impossible 3.

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