The People Behind the Street Name: Hamlin (wedgwoodinseattlehistory.com) The names of Seattle streets are worthy of a trivia contest to discern their origins and guess the meaning of the names. What does it mean when a street in Seattle is named “Aloha???”
Although the details of the transfer of his property remains clouded, we do know that on December 29, 1939, thirteen years after his death [Howard H. Hamlin], the Seattle Trust and Savings Bank donated eight acres of section 9 to King County for the original Hamlin Park.
It’s possible that [Howard H.] Hamlin never even saw the section 9 property, although he did work with Ole Hanson (developer of Lake Forest Park) and other prominent real estate developers in the area in planning development for northwest King County.
[Howard H.] Hamlin lived in a comfortable residence on Capitol Hill in Seattle, and never resided in the rural woods of northwest King county, contrary to popular tales about “the Hamlin Homestead,” which never existed.
[Howard H.] Hamlin owned section 9 in its entirety, having acquired it from Joseph Williamson in the late 1800s.