In this oasis several four-foot diameter Douglas fir trees offer a hint at the natural environment that may have surrounded early occupants of these homes.
Many modest, turn-of-the-century pioneer “box” homes still ring Salmon Bay Park, given to the town of Ballard in 1890.
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