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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 ...
Steilacoom (/ ˈ s t ɪ l ə k əm / STIL-ə-kəm) is a town in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The population was 6,727 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Steilacoom incorporated in 1854 and became the first incorporated town in what is now the state of Washington.
Lake Steilacoom is a reservoir approximately 4 km (2.5 mi) southwest of Tacoma in Pierce County, Washington, United States. Its boundaries lie entirely within the city of Lakewood, Washington . The reservoir covers approximately 306 acres (1,240,000 m 2 ), has a mean depth of 11 feet (3.4 m) and a maximum depth of 20 feet (6.1 m).
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 ...
Joanna Clark of Steilacoom explains to her son Olin Clark-Gamble, 8, how to tell when a cumber is ready to be harvested at the Steilacoom Historical Community Garden on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024.
Fort Steilacoom Park, the largest park in Lakewood, Washington; Lake Steilacoom, a lake in Pierce County, Washington, approximately 2.5 miles southwest of Tacoma, Washington; Steilacoom Creek, an older name for Chambers Creek, in Washington State; Steilacoom, Washington, a town in Pierce County, Washington
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.
Chambers Creek was named for Thomas M. Chambers, who settled near Olympia, Washington, in 1846 and later built a sawmill on the creek. [1]The creek was also known as Steilacoom Creek, for the Coast Salish tribe whose territory on its north side.