Don't Fail to See Ravenna (or Big Tree Park), 1909

• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1909
• Subjects: Parks > Washington (State) > Seattle Trees > Washington (State) > Seattle; Beck; Coman; Pacific; Union Bay; Yukon; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/11904

Seattle's Ravenna Park was among the few areas that escaped the logger's ax in the late 1800s, thus preserving stunning examples of giant old-growth Douglas Firs. Centered around a stream that ran from Green Lake to Union Bay, the park opened in 1887 as Ravenna Springs Park, named for the...