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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 ...
Northeast of Steilacoom: Steilacoom: Only operating as a fort from 1849 to 1868, the fort was then turned into the Western State Hospital. Today four officer's quarters built around 1858 remain from the original fort. [19] 25: Fox Island School
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.
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.
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 ...
The city of Lakewood announced Wednesday that it will close the Fort Steilacoom dog park May 17-18 in order to remove the noxious weed.
Fort Steilacoom Park; J. Joemma Beach State Park; K. ... Penrose Point State Park; Point Defiance Park; Prairie Line Trail; T. Titlow Beach; W. Wright Park (Tacoma ...
In southern King County, modern-day SR 99 runs parallel to a section of the Fort Steilacoom–Fort Bellingham military road, constructed in the 1850s by the U.S. Army. [27] [28] A section north of Seattle follows the R.F. Morrow wagon road, constructed in 1901 and later incorporated into the North Trunk Road. [29]