Talk:Ravenna Park (Seattle)

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[edit] may day event

There's a May Day event in the park, but I can't find any info about it on the web. Could someone add info about it and other park events to the page? Edit: I found and added something about it. 69.91.144.167 (talk) 19:02, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merge

The Ravenna Neighborhood article has a more detailed section on the history of Cowen-Ravenna Park than this article. I think this should be corrected by merging most of that section out of that article, leaving behind a {{main}} pointing here and add a history section to this article. Anyone have a strong opinion on the matter or want to perform this task?
—Asatruer 13:04, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Added {{See also|.
The history of Cowen Park-Ravenna Park in the Ravenna neighborhood article is significantly about stewardship. Citizens, primarily the people of the neighborhoods, are the stewards of the park. See also Talk:Ravenna Creek. --GoDot 14:21, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Archived discussion of possible relevance

Talk:Seattle, Washington/Archive 2#Primeval discusses several possible sources that would be useful on the topic of the destruction of the old growth trees in the park in the 1920s. - Jmabel | Talk 03:51, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Old Growth Douglas Fir

Ravenna park originally contained a grove of old growth, thousand year old Douglas Fir, up to 15 feet in diameter, and over 300 feet tall, The tallest named the "Robert E. Lee" standing "nearly 400 feet" (120 meters) in height was secretly removed in the mid twenties, amid opposition; a fate not unlike Vancouver BC's 415-foot Fir felled in 1902. You could say, Seattle once contained some of the tallest trees on the planet.

--71.215.152.104 05:49, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Sources follow (from Talk:Seattle,_Washington/Archive_2#Primeval):