Ebook: Seattle's Ravenna Neighborhood
Author: Wendell Ann
- Tags: Historic buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle, Manners and customs, Buildings, Historic buildings, Pictorial works, History, Historic buildings -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Pictorial works, Ravenna (Seattle Wash.) -- Buildings structures etc. -- Pictorial works, Ravenna (Seattle Wash.) -- History -- Pictorial works, Ravenna (Seattle Wash.) -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works, Seattle (Wash.) -- Buildings structures etc. -- Pictorial works, Seattle (Wash.) -- History -- Pictorial
- Series: Images of America., Images of America: a history of American life in images and texts
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
- City: Charleston;SC;Ravenna (Seattle;Wash.);Seattle (Wash.);Washington (State);Seattle;Ravenna
- Language: English
- epub
For centuries, Native American tribes lived peacefully along the trout-filled stream in a ravine that would later become part of northeastern Seattle. In 1887, the Reverend Beck disembarked from the Seattle Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad and, in this same area, bought 300 lushly forested acres that he turned into a township and park, both called Ravenna. The town was only three and a half miles from the city center and soon boasted a flour mill and a finishing school. The park itself, with its giant trees, mineral springs, fountains, and music pavilion, soon became a major attraction and well worth the 25Ø admission. Eventually the timber was harvested and the school replaced by the university. Today the park remains a haven of serenity and the stream once again runs through it.
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