- Volunteer Park, located on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, is an Olmsted-designed, landmark park that is home to the Volunteer Park Conservatory, the Seattle Asian Art Museum, and a city water reservoir and standpipe. It is an oasis of open space in a dense residential neighborhood and attracts visitors from around the region. The city originally purchased the land that makes up the park in 1876 for municipal purposes. The park site would briefly provide a resting place for bodies exhumed from the City Cemetery before they were moved to Lake View Cemetery. First named Lake View Park, and then City Park, it was renamed Volunteer Park in 1901, in honor of the volunteer soldiers who fought in the Spanish-American War…
- Port Townsend — Thumbnail History (historylink.org)
Few places in Washington can match Port Townsend’s long saga of soaring dreams, bitter disappointments, near death, and gradual rebirth. Located on Jefferson County’s Quimper Peninsula at the northeast corner of the Olympic Peninsula, near where the Strait of Juan de Fuca meets Admiralty Inlet, the future town site was home to a band of the Klallam Tribe and smaller groups from other tribes…