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Fort Steilacoom Park in Lakewood, Washington is the largest park in the city. The 340-acre (1.4 km 2) park includes Waughop Lake, an off-leash dog park, and several soccer fields and baseball fields. [1] It is adjacent to Pierce College, historic Fort Steilacoom, and Western State Hospital. The area became a homesteader's farm circa 1844, then ...
Fort Steilacoom was founded by the U.S. Army in 1849 near Lake Steilacoom. It was among the first military fortifications built by the U.S. north of the Columbia River in what was to become the State of Washington. The fort was constructed due to civilian agitation about the massacre in 1847 at the Whitman mission.
Also known as the Church of the Immaculate Conception, this church was originally built in 1855 near Fort Steilacoom, but was moved to its present location in Steilacoom in 1864. [29] It was the first Catholic church built in Washington. [30] 71: Steilacoom Historic District: Steilacoom Historic District
Waughop Lake is a lake less than 1.6 km (1.0 mi) east of Steilacoom in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The lake lies within Fort Steilacoom Park, in the city of Lakewood, Washington. Waughop Lake has a surface area of approximately 33 acres (130,000 m 2) and a mean depth of 7 feet (2.1 m). The lake is fed by groundwater and has no ...
Military Road runs along the eastern shore of the lake, next to the park. This road, built in the 1850s, once linked Fort Steilacoom with Fort Bellingham . The road's construction was authorized in 1857 to defend against Native American hostilities and the threat of foreign naval attacks.
The new neighborhood is south of Fort Steilacoom Park. A drone shot of the Austin Court neighborhood lots being developed by Pacific Lifestyle Homes in Lakewood. Pacific Lifestyle Homes.
Area code 360 McKenna is an unincorporated community in Pierce County , Washington , United States, located on State Route 507 and the Nisqually River , east of Yelm .
By 1970, the college changed its name to Fort Steilacoom Community College. Until the opening of the main building in 1974, classes were taught in portables. In the 1980s, the college opened the Fort Steilacoom Community College Eastern Extension at the corner of 94th Avenue and 112th Street/39th Avenue in Puyallup, Washington.