Seward Park es un vecindario en el sudeste de Seattle que deriva su nombre del parque urbano ubicado en la Península Bailey que se extiende dentro del Lago Washington. En 1911, cuatro años después de anexar mucho de lo que ahora es el sudeste de Seattle, la Ciudad compró la península a la familia Bailey para desarrollar un parque nombrado por el Secretario de Estado de los EE.UU. William H. Seward (1801-1872), notable por abogar por la compra de Alaska por los EE.UU. El área circundante que tomó su nombre del parque creció a medida que el tendido de calles y la terminación de Lake Washington Boulevard mejoraron el acceso. Mientras muchos vecindarios de Seattle que fueron nombrados por especuladores inmobiliarios tenían límites definidos, Seward Park evolucionó después de estos promotores y el nombre abarca partes de Brighton Beach, Hillman City, y Lakewood a lo largo de ambos lados de South Orcas Street. El área es racial y económicamente diversa, y es un centro de la comunidad judía de Seattle.
Vecindarios de Seattle: Seward Park -- Historia Abreviada
- By David Wilma
- Posted 3/28/2001
- HistoryLink.org Essay 3143
Sources:
"Lakewood Community Club," brochure, 1948, Rainier Valley Historical Society, Seattle; David Buerge, "Indian Lake Washington," The Weekly, August 1, 1984, pp. 29-33; Don Sherwood, "Seward Park - Graham Peninsula," Interpretive Essays on the History of Seattle Parks, Handwritten bound manuscript dated 1977, Seattle Room, Seattle Public Library; Don Sherwood, "Genessee P.F., Wetmore Slough," Ibid.; Don Sherwood, "Stanley S. Sayres Memorial Park," Ibid.; Don Sherwood, "Brighton Playfield," Ibid.; David Buerge, "The Native American Presence in the Rainier Valley Area," typescript, undated, Rainier Valley Historical Society, Seattle; David Buerge, "Indian Lake Washington," The Weekly, August 1-August 7, 1984, pp. 29-33; Paul Dorpat, Seattle Now and Then, (Seattle: Tartu Publications, 1984), 82; Lucile B. McDonald, The Lake Washington Story, (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1979), 23, 87, 88; Redick H. McKee, "Road Map of Seattle and Vicinity," 1890, Seattle Public Library; "Guide Map of the City of Seattle, Washington Territory," ca. 1888, brochure, Seattle Public Library; "Anderson's New Guide Map of the City of Seattle and Environs," July 1890, Seattle Public Library; Mark Higgins, "Large Jewish Population Calls Diverse Community Home," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 20, 1997, (seattlep-i.nwsource.com); "Galland Center," Metropedia Library, (www.Historylink.org); David Wilma interview with Grover Haynes, president, Lakewood-Seward Park Community Club, March 31, 2001, Seattle, Washington.
Note: This essay was revised slightly on November 4, 2011.
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