Alki Homestead on “most endangered” list
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West Seattle (Images of America) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) $14.34 The idea of a big city named New York Alki began in 1851 with the arrival of the Bell, Low, Denny, Boren, and Terry families on a Puget Sound shore. Since that rough beginning, logging, farming, shipbuilding, fishing, steel manufacturing, trolleys, and bridges have shaped the area’s people and built communities. Beaches on Puget Sound and a river leading inside the country have defined the Duwamis… |
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ALKI, Birthplace of Seattle vhs tape 1997. by KCTS Television and the Southwest Seattle Historical Society. Log House Museum, West Seattle, Washington. $44.90 An examination of the meeting of two cultures from the perspectives of pioneer descendant Brewster Denny and James Rasmussen, a Duwamish descendanct of Chief Seattle. Historian David Buerge weaves together the complex stories of the settlers seeking to build a new community and the Duwamish who struggled to survive in a rapidly changing world. Produced in conjunction with KCTS Television and the… |
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