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South Park is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington.It is located just south of Georgetown across the Duwamish River, and just north of the city of Tukwila.Its main thoroughfares are West Marginal Way S. (northwest- and southeast-bound), S. Cloverdale Street (east- and westbound) and 14th Ave. S (north-and-south).
Now demolished. Also known as the South Park Bridge, this Scherzer Rolling Lift double-leaf bascule bridge was the only bridge of its type in the state. It opened in 1931 and spanned the Duwamish River, connecting the South Park neighborhood with the rest of Seattle.
Two women tending plants at Marra Farm. Marra Farm, a 4-acre (1.6 ha) plot of land in Marra-Desimone Park, South Park, Seattle, Washington is one of only two historic agricultural parcels inside Seattle city limits that retains an agricultural use today; the other is Picardo Farm.
Viretta Park is a 1.8-acre (7,300 m 2) park in the Denny-Blaine neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, located at the foot of E. John Street at 39th Avenue E. and stretching down to Lake Washington Boulevard. It was named by Charles L. Denny after his wife, Viretta Chambers Denny.
The South Park Bridge (also called the 14th/16th Avenue South Bridge) is a double-leaf bascule bridge in Seattle, Washington, United States. Opened in 2014, the current bridge replaced a 1931 bascule bridge that carried the same name and had been listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Housing covenants became common in the 1920s and were validated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1926. Minorities were effectively limited to the International District and parts of some neighborhoods in south-east Seattle for Asian- and Native Americans; or the Central District for people of African ancestry, clearly defining those neighborhoods. [18]
Georgetown is a neighborhood in southern Seattle, Washington, United States.It is bounded on the north by the mainlines of the BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad, beyond which is the Industrial District; on the west by the Duwamish River, across which is South Park; on the east by Interstate 5, beyond which is Beacon Hill; and on the south by Boeing Field.
Denny-Blaine Park (One of the "improved parks" mentioned in the Seattle Park Board's annual report for 1909) The City of Seattle Parks and Recreation department lists a number of other parks, playgrounds, and playfields "influenced or recommended" by the Olmsteds, including the city's largest park: 534-acre (2.16 km 2) Discovery Park. [1]