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Vashon Island sits in the midpoint of southern Puget Sound, between Seattle and Tacoma, Washington.In the nearby Pacific Ocean, roughly 170 miles (270 km) west of Vashon Island, lies the 700-mile (1,130 km) tectonic boundary known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and as such, Vashon Island is one of many areas at risk for earthquakes or related natural disasters.
The Island Queen was a series of two American sidewheeler steamboats built in 1896 and 1925 respectively. Both vessels were passenger carriers cruising along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers as both an excursion boat and tramp steamer .
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In 1937 he married again, to Chiyeko Wakasugi whose family farmed strawberries on Bainbridge Island, an island in Puget Sound north of Vashon. [3] As Masa increasingly took over the business it became "Mukai and Son". The Mukai operation did well despite the Great Depression, employing 400 to 500 seasonal workers, including the pickers.
George Boyer Vashon (1824–1878), American scholar, poet and abolitionist; James Vashon (1742–1827), British naval officer and namesake of Vashon Island; Mary Frances Vashon (1818–1854), American journalist and abolitionist; Susan Paul Vashon (1838–1912), American educator, abolitionist, and clubwoman
The Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber was founded on March 7, 1957, by Carl Nelson and John VanDevanter. It competed with an existing newspaper, the Vashon Island News-Record, which was founded in 1919 from the merger of two local newspapers.
The soil of Seattle, the state's largest city, is approximately 80% glacial drift, most of which is Vashon glacial deposits , [7] and nearly all of the city's major named hills are characterized as drumlins (Beacon Hill, First Hill, Capitol Hill, Queen Anne Hill) or drift uplands (Magnolia, West Seattle).
Puget Sound (Vashon and Maury Islands); Gulf Islands: Builder: Matthew McDowell, at shipyard in Tacoma: Completed: 1913: In service: 1913: Out of service: c. 1980: Identification: IMO number: 5083241: Fate: Sunk as reef near Saltspring Island [citation needed] Notes: Built as Daily, ran on Puget Sound 1913-1918, then sold to CPR: General ...