Seattle Neighborhoods: Leschi — Thumbnail History (historylink.org)Seattle’s Leschi neighborhood is located along Lake Washington directly east of Pioneer Square. It was a neighborhood served by a cable car that went from Pioneer Square to Lake Washington along Yesler Way. Leschi lies south of Madrona Park and north of the Mount Baker neighborhood (the I-90 corridor). It is a place of steep hillsides and ravines, one of the scenic neighborhoods along the Lake Washington Boulevard.
Rubus armeniacus Focke (plants.sc.egov.usda.gov)Himalaya blackberry fruits are highly edible and commonly collected by berry pickers. The fruit can be canned, frozen, or eaten fresh (Francis 2003). Wildlife readily consumes the fruit as well. It was used in the development of the hybrid marionberry cultivar, ‘Marion’ (Waldo 1957).
Leschi, Seattle (Wikipedia)Leschi is a neighborhood in the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. Located on the western shore of Lake Washington, the residential neighborhood was named by its 19th-century developer for Chief Leschi of the Nisqually tribe, who was executed by territorial authorities in 1858 in Pierce County, Washington.