Fauntleroy is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of Seattle, Washington. A neighbourhood or neighborhood (see spelling differences) is a geographically localised Community within a larger City, Town or Part of West Seattle and situated on Puget Sound's Fauntleroy Cove (into which Fauntleroy Creek flows from its source in Fauntleroy Park), it faces Vashon Island, Blake Island, and the Kitsap Peninsula to the west. West Seattle, a hilly district in Seattle, Washington, encompasses all of Seattle west of the Duwamish River. Puget Sound (ˈpjuːʤᵻt is an arm of the Pacific Ocean, connected to the rest of the Pacific by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in the Pacific Northwest Fauntleroy Creek is a Stream in the Fauntleroy neighborhood of West Seattle, Washington, USA. Vashon is a Census-designated place (CDP in King County, Washington, United States. Blake Island is an island in Washington state in the United States. The Kitsap Peninsula is an arm of land that is part of the larger Olympic Peninsula in Washington On sunny days, many locations in the neighborhood offer views of the Olympic Mountains, which are about 40 miles (64. The Olympic Mountains are a Mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of western Washington in the United States. 4 kilometers) to the west. The neighborhood adjoins Lincoln Park to the north, Fauntlee Hills to the east, and Arbor Heights to the south. Lincoln Park is a 135 acre (546000 m² park in West Seattle between Fauntleroy Way S Within Fauntleroy is an area known as Endolyne (the "end of the line" of the Fauntleroy Park streetcar route in the early 1900s). Fauntleroy is home to an eponymous Washington State Ferries terminal, providing service to Vashon Island and Southworth. This page is about the ferry system operated by the state of Washington Southworth is an unincorporated community on Puget Sound in Kitsap County, Washington, United States.
The neighborhood, creek, and park all take their name from the cove, itself named by one Lt. George Davidson of the U. S. Coast Survey in 1857 in honor of the family of his fiancée, Ellinor Fauntleroy of Indiana. Click here for Indian Rebellion of 1857 Year 1857 ( MDCCCLVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the [1]
Fauntleroy's history was chronicled by Roy Morse and Richard Brown in Fauntleroy Legacy (1989) and by Clay Eals in West Side Story (West Seattle Herald, 1987). The West Seattle Herald is a weekly Newspaper serving the West Seattle Neighborhood of Seattle Washington.
Central to the Fauntleroy neighborhood are Fauntleroy Church (United Church of Christ), Fauntleroy YMCA, and the closed Fauntleroy School, which now houses Fauntleroy Children's Center (childcare); a caterer, rental auditorium and meeting rooms; and several other business tenants. The United Church of Christ ( UCC) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination principally in the United States, The Young Men's Christian Association (" YMCA " or " the Y " was founded on June 6, 1844 in London England by a young man Childcare (also written child care and babycare is the act of caring for and supervising minor Children (In Australia Daycare is referred
An all-volunteer, community-based organization (Fauntleroy Community Association) founded in the early 1980s brings neighbors together to address local issues such as environmental quality, traffic and parking. A volunteer is someone who works for a community or for the benefit of environment primarily because they choose to do so The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. Traffic on Roads may consist of Pedestrians ridden or herded Animals Vehicles Streetcars and other Conveyances either singly Parking is the act of stopping a Vehicle and leaving it unoccupied for more than a brief time
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