Des Moines Memorial Way South, Women’s Memorial

By Mildred Andrews Posted 1/14/1999 HistoryLink.org Essay 679 On Armistice Day, November 11, 1921, members of the Seattle Garden Club, led by President Lillian Gustin McEwan, planted the first 25 elm trees along Des Moines Way S  (later renamed Des Moine Memorial Drive) — the beginning of a living memorial to “American men who gave

Des Moines — Thumbnail History

The City of Des Moines, located 15 miles south of Seattle along the shores of Puget Sound, has never been a large center of industry like other Seattle suburbs. Although it incorporated as recently as 1959, it has been a Northwest community for more than 100 years. Europeans first saw the high bluffs of Des

Moscow-Pullman Daily News July, 11 1996: Activists propose new ‘Puget Sound County’

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SEATTLE - Cedar Caunt;y. Casade County. Enumclaw County. Sll)l1coml&h County. Pioneer Counl)'. WhlLehorse Counl)'. A lla ofu............rul proposals ror now countJea in ...