- Seattle Neighborhoods: Brighton Beach — Thumbnail History (historylink.org)
Brighton Beach is a neighborhood on Lake Washington in southeast Seattle. It is just south of the Bailey Peninsula (home to Seward Park) and extends from the lake over Graham Hill, across the Rainier Valley, and up the side of Beacon Hill, generally between S Othello Street on the south and S Orcas Street on the north. English immigrants who purchased lots there in the 1880s named the neighborhood for a resort town in England. Before that the area had been home to Duwamish Indians who had a village called hah-HAO-hlch (“forbidden place”) just south of Bailey Peninsula, and then to settlers who logged the huge trees, built farms, orchards, and a schoolhouse, and platted house lots.
- William M. Branham (Wikipedia)
William Marrion Branham (April 6, 1909 – December 24, 1965) was an American Christian minister and faith healer who initiated the post-World War II healing revival, and claimed to be a prophet with the anointing of Elijah, who had come to prelude Christ’s second coming; some of his followers have been labeled a “doomsday cult”. He is credited as “a principal architect of restorationist thought” for charismatics by some Christian historians, and has been called the “leading individual in the Second Wave of Pentecostalism.” He made a lasting influence on televangelism and the modern charismatic movement, and his “stage presence remains a legend unparalleled in the history of the Charismatic movement”.
