Did you know that Lyon Creek in Lake Forest Park was named after a family who “owned” lakefront properties in the late 1800’s?

Did you know that the creek had a name before that?

The Lake People, the first people to live in that area we now call Lake Forest Park, called the creek [Sts KUL] “a certain small bird” which could refer to the wren.

Lake Forest Park community members wanted to know more about what was here before it was colonized and renamed.

So, they asked Shoreline Historical Museum and David Buerge, local historian, teacher, and published author of several books about the indigenous peoples in and around Seattle, if they would help create the manuscript called, “A People’s History of Lake Forest Park.”

After two years of extensive research, Buerge has finished his manuscr

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