Archives Inventory

2 folders

Folder 1, "Foster Island, Marsh Island and the Arboretum Waterfront Trail; "Marsh Island Nature Trail U of W Arboretum" :
Correspondence, notes, clippings and maps dated 1968-1976 regarding the Waterfront Nature Trail (aka Arboretum Waterfront Trail) and Foster Island trail development.
(Located in Box 1.1.10 labelled "Gardens Within the Washington Park Arboretum A-O.")

Folder 2, "Foster Island, Marsh Island and the Arboretum Waterfront Trail":
Spring 1989, "The Naming of Foster Island," WPA Bulletin, clipped with Sumner 1968, "Arboretum Waterfront Trail," WPA Bulletin, 4 pp.
5/9/1989, memo to Chris from Scot describing attached items 12/5/1967-1/12/1968 re: plans for Foster Island shoreline restoration, 6 pp.
6/1985, "Preliminary Findings and Recommendations on the reconstruction of the Seattle Arboretum Waterfront Trail," 17 pp.
4/7/1924, letter to Hugo Winkenwerder from Henry Suzzallo re: declaration [not included] that Seattle "Park Board will undertake to develop and manage a Botanical Garden and Arboretum in Washington Park," and noting that prisoners from a stockade to be located on Foster Island will be used temporarily for five years.