Union Bay (Seattle)
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Union Bay is that part of Lake Washington in Seattle that is west of a line drawn between Webster Point in the Laurelhurst neighborhood to the north and the northeastern corner of the Madison Park neighborhood in the south. It ends at the eastern opening of the Montlake Cut of the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
When the level of Lake Washington was dropped nearly nine feet in 1916 as a result of the opening of the Ship Canal,Phelps, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project 1913-1916, pp. 67–69 a good portion of Union Bay and Union Bay Marsh and wetland became dry land, furthered by landfill and sanitary landfill. The marsh and much of the bay was filled from 1911 to 1967. The Montlake Landfill (in use from 1926 to 1967) was the fictional home of television clown J. P. Patches, resident 1958 to 1981.(1) Fill sites 1911, 1920, 1926; last acreage, in the University District, closed 1966 or 1967).
(1.1) Phelps, pp. 208, 210; "HISTORY @UBNA", below.
(2) Stein The University Village shopping center (1956) and most of the east campus of the University of Washington (UW) (except for Husky Stadium) sit on this land today. What remains of Union Bay Marsh is the restored portion within the Union Bay Natural Area of the UW.(1)
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As well as providing the outlet for Lake Washington, Union Bay receives the water of Arboretum Creek, and Ravenna Creek via pipeline from Ravenna Park through south Ravenna, daylighted past the restored Union Bay Natural Area.
The shores of what is now Union Bay have been inhabited since the end of the last glacial period (around 10,000 years ago). The Native American Duwamish (Dkhw’Duw’Absh, [Dkhw’Duw’Absh], "the People of the Inside") tribe of the Lushootseed (Skagit-Nisqually) Coast Salish nations had the prominent village of SWAH-tsoo-gweel ("portage") on an abundant and much larger Union Bay, and what is now Ravenna was their backyard before the arrival of European settlers,Dailey, 26, ref. 2, 8) Laurelhurst in summer.Rochester The Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad was built around 1886 along what is now the Burke-Gilman Trail, following what was the shoreline past where the UW power plant and University Village are today.Phelps, p. 25 A longhouse (IPA [khwaac'ál'al]) was near the present UW power plant (across Montlake Boulevard from the IMA building), others were around the north shores a mile farther in than today, and shores east of what is now the Union Bay Natural Area, with the longhouses between what is now the Center for Urban Horticulture and Children's Hospital. Villages were diffuse.
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Neighborhoods of Ravenna CreekReferences
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Page links to [Village Descriptions Duwamish-Seattle section].
Dailey referenced "Puget Sound Geography" by T. T. Waterman. Washington DC: National Anthropological Archives, mss. [n.d.] [ref. 2]
Duwamish et al vs. United States of America, F-275. Washington DC: US Court of Claims, 1927. [ref. 5]
"Indian Lake Washington" by David Buerge in the Seattle Weekly, 1-7 August 1984 [ref. 8]
"Seattle Before Seattle" by David Buerge in the Seattle Weekly, 17-23 December 1980. [ref. 9]
The Puyallup-Nisqually by Marian W. Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. [ref. 10].
Recommended start is ["Coast Salish Villages of Puget Sound"]- ["HISTORY @ UBNA"]. Center for Urban Horticulture, Departments, University of Washington (n.d., 1999 per ["Montlake Landfill Information Summary, January 1999"] on page), retrieved 21 April 2006.
- Phelps, Myra L., Public works in Seattle. Seattle: Seattle Engineering Department, 1978. ISBN 0960192816.
- ["Ravenna"]. Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas (n.d., map .jpg c. 17 June 2002), retrieved 21 April 2006. Note caveat in footer.
Maps "NN-1030S", "NN-1040S".jpg dated 17 June 2002.
Rochester referenced Christine Barrett, A History of Laurelhurst (Seattle, WA: Laurelhurst Community Club, 1981, revised 1989);
Paul Dorpat, Seattle: Now & Then, Vols. II and III (Seattle, WA: Tartu Publications, 1984 and 1989);
Lucile McDonald, The Lake Washington Story, (Seattle, WA: Superior Publishing Co., 1979);
Brandt Morgan, Enjoying Seattle's Parks (Seattle, WA: Greenwood Publications, 1979);
Harry W. Higman and Earl J. Larrison, Union Bay: The Life of a City Marsh, (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1951);
J. Willis Sayre, This City of Ours (Seattle, WA: Seattle School District No. 1, 1936);
Sophie Frye Bass, Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle (Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, 1937);
Roger Sale, Seattle: Past to Present (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1976).- Stein, Alan J. ["Patches, Julius Pierpont"], HistoryLink. 02 March 2003, retrieved 21 April 2006. Stein referenced Jack Broom, "The J.P. Generation," Pacific Magazine, The Seattle Times, 4 April 1993, pp. 6-11,14-17;
Bill Cartmel, "Hi Ya, Patches Pals," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 11April 1971, pp. 6-7;
Erik Lacitis, "Patches Understands – and Survivies," The Seattle Times, 23 February 1978, p. A15;
[no title], The East Side Journal, 31 May 1962, p. 3; Ibid. 14 May 1969, p. 19. - ["University District"]. Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas (n.d., map .jpg 13 June), retrieved 21 April 2006. Note caveat in footer.
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