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Alki Beach Park is a 135.9-acre (55.0 ha) park located in the West Seattle neighborhood of Seattle, Washington that consists of the Elliott Bay beach between Alki Point and Duwamish Head. [2] It has a 0.5 miles (0.80 km) of beachfront, and was the first public salt-water bathing beach on the west coast of the United States.
Me-Kwa-Mooks is an Anglicized version of the Lushootseed word for Alki Point, sbaqÊ·abqs (pronounced SBAH-kwahb-ks), meaning "prairie point." [1] Today's Me-Kwa-Mooks Park is land that was acquired by the Parks Department in 1971. The site was originally the homestead of the pioneers Ferdinand and Emma Schmitz. When all the Schmitz family died ...
The Alki Point Lighthouse dates from 1913, replacing the United States Lighthouse Service's post light from 1887 and Hanson's lantern-on-a-post from the mid-1870s. Alki Point bathing beach, 1930, by Asahel Curtis. From 1925 to 1936, a ferry route across Puget Sound connected Alki Point with Manchester, Washington on the Kitsap Peninsula. [6]
As Hurricane Milton heads toward Florida, live stream cameras along Florida beaches could capture the storm’s arrival and impacts along the Gulf Coast and in the Florida Keys.
The Duwamish tribe was relocated to a reservation here in 1856, which at the time was referred to as Holderness Point. [4] From 1907 to 1913 it was the site of an amusement park, Luna Park . Today, Alki Beach Park extends southwestward from Duwamish Head to Alki Point ; [ 5 ] the area at the head is sometimes called "Anchor Park" due to the ...
The Mission Point Resort on Mackinac Island has a new webcam and will use it to share views of sunrises and sunsets from its front lawn. Here's the link: WMVision - LIVE Streaming (wetmet.net)
The Statue of Liberty, or Lady Liberty, is a replica of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) installed at Seattle's Alki Beach Park, in the U.S. state of Washington. It was installed in 1952 by the Boy Scouts of America and underwent a significant restoration in 2007 after repeated vandalism had damaged the sculpture.
The first, unofficial, light established at Alki Point was a kerosene lantern said to have been hung on the side of a barn in the 1870s by farmer and property owner Hans Martin Hanson. [4] In 1887, the United States Lighthouse Board recognized the need for an official light and placed a lens-lantern atop a wooden post at the point. [5]