Welcoming Figure, Richmond Beach Park
Native peoples lived and traveled on Puget Sound waterways in canoes thousands of years before the arrival of European explorers and traders. In 1998, artists Steve Brown, Joe Gobin, and Andy Wilbur created Welcoming Figure, a ten-foot high bronze sculpture of a Coast Salish man and woman. They first carved Welcoming Figure out of red [...]
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Denny Party Landing Site/Schooner Exact
On November 13, 1851, 22 men, women and children arrived at a beach a few hundred yards east of Alki Point on the Duwamish Peninsula. Known as the Denny Party, they had first traveled overland to Oregon as part of the great western migration. But they found the area already crowded, and sent two men [...]
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Marty McOmber
Dan Leach
Deborah Bach
Zach Wellington Simonson-Bond
Pete Leenhouts
Mary D. Christie
Zoe Olson
hannah hindley
Brendan Floyd
Aislinn Palmer
Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society
CWB Maritime
Madhuri Hosford
Joe Follansbee
Sue Loiland
Janeen Armstrong.
Oregon Maritime Museum
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