Leschi Park is an 18.5 acres (75,000 m2) park in the Leschi neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, named after Chief Leschi of the Nisqually tribe. The majority of the park is a grassy hillside that lies west of Lakeside Avenue S. and features tennis courts, picnic tables, and a playground.
Across Lakeside Avenue to the east is the western shore of Lake Washington and a small lawn with benches. To its south is the southern portion of Leschi Moorage, separated from the northern portion by a parking lot in the E. Yesler Way right-of-way, private docks, and an office/restaurant complex.
The cable car run from Pioneer Square that operated from September 27, 1888, to August 10, 1940, terminated here. As with Madison Park to the north, there was a cross-lake ferry run from Leschi Park to the Eastside before the construction of the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge. Seattle's first zoo was located here, but moved to Woodland Park in 1903. Leschi Park borders Frink Park in its southwest corner.
The Duwamish called the area "Changes-Its-Face" (Lushootseed: s7ayá7oos), referring to an enormous and powerful supernatural horned snake that was said to live there.[1]
^Thrush, Coll (2007). Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place. University of Washington Press. p. 248. ISBN 978-0-295-98700-2.
LeschiPark is an 18.5 acres (75,000 m2) park in the Leschi neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, named after Chief Leschi of the Nisqually tribe. The...
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the "Scenic Route"; Atlanta left LeschiPark six times daily for points around Mercer Island; Cyrene left LeschiPark eleven times daily for East Seattle...
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was hired to design the city's parks, including Woodland Park, and the next year the collection of the private LeschiPark menagerie was moved to Phinney...
Leschi, the lakeside road is named Lakeside Avenue, and Lake Washington Boulevard diverts to a winding route through Colman, Frink, and LeschiParks....
and street scenes, the Great Seattle fire of June 6, 1889, Madrona and Leschiparks, Native American hop pickers, and portraits of Seattle pioneers. Asahel...
Western Washington, Leschi, which launched December 6, 1913. The Leschi operated on Lake Washington, providing service from LeschiPark to two locations...
streetcar in 1884, followed by a cable car from downtown over First Hill to LeschiPark in 1887. In 1885, the city passed an ordinance requiring attached sewer...
carnival-type activities such as at Madrona and Leschiparks to the south. The Denny's dedication of these open space parks to the city was like that of David Denny...
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