Thursday, February 9, 2012
Fort Lawton
On this date back in 1900, the US Government officially named Fort Lawton, the site had been a military installation since 1894.. Fort Lawton is named for Major General Henry Ware Lawton, veteran of the Civil War and the Indian Wars. Lawton was killed in action in the Philippines in 1899. Fort Lawton would remain in its original size through 1970 after that it was transferred to the City of Seattle to become Discovery Park. But that is a story I have told before.
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