City Site: Foster Park
Location:
- Historical Monument - S. 138th Street and 53rd Avenue S.
Historical Information:
- Joseph Foster Park - Land donated to build a Southcentral School District school west of the monument.
City Site: Foster Golf Links
Location:
- Historical Monument - North end of Foster Golf Links. 56th Avenue S and Interurban Avenue S.
Historical Information:
- Riverboat Landing - Identifies location where flat bottom boats landed at a point called Foster Landing.
City Site: Fort Dent Park
Location:
- Historical Monument - Within Fort Dent Park, Fort Dent Way. Found along the Green River Trail just outside the outfield fences of Fields #1 & 2 commemorating the Black River Junction Landing for flat-bottomed boats that carried passengers and goods to and from the Duwamish and Green Rivers between 1854 and 1886.
Historical Information:
- Fort Dent was named after Captain Frederick T. Dent, U.S. Army, who was said to have supervised construction of the building. Dent eventually became a Colonel in the Civil War and was a member of General Ulysses S. Grant's staff (General Grant married Dent's sister, Julia).
City Site: Duwamish/Green River Trail Pedestrian Bridge
Location:
- Dedicated plaque - S. 180th and Andover Park East on wooden footbridge.
Historical Information:
- Byron Sneva - Tukwila Public Works Director. Dedicated 1988.
City Site: Tukwila Library
Location:
- Historical Plaque - Tukwila Library. 59th Avenues S. and S. 144th St.
Historical Information:
- Historical Building - Former elementary school (1920-1946) and city hall (1947-1978). Turn of the century school burned down and replaced in the late 40's, then served as city hall.
City Site: Crystal Springs Park
Location:
- Historical Water Tank - S. 160th St. and 51st Avenue S.
Historical Information:
- Concrete Open Tank - Crystal Springs Water Company piped spring water to valley farms.
City Site: Duwamish/Green River Trail
Location:
- Historical Monument - Christensen Road and Baker Blvd.
Historical Information:
- Nelson Landing - Riverboat landing from 1853 to 1886 at the Nelson family farm, 200 yards north.
City Site: Strander Boulevard over Green River
Location:
- Historical Plaque - Strander Boulevard and Green River
Historical Information:
- Lois T. Newton Bridge - Served as City Clerk for many years--bridge named in her honor.
City Site: Duwamish Park
Location:
- Historical Plaque - 42nd Avenue S. and S. 116th Street.
Historical Information:
- Duwamish School - Former site of first school for School District #175, operated 1911 to 1974.
City Site: Tukwila Community Center
Location:
- Petroglyph Rock - 42nd Avenue S. & 124th St.
Historical Information:
- Native American Site - Grassy area was once a campsite on the river for Native Americans as a food gathering location.
City Site: Frank W. Zepp Bridge
Location:
- S. 180th Street over Duwamish/Green River
Historical Information:
- Frank W. Zepp Bridge - Long-term City Supervisor, dedicated 1970.
City Site: Tukwila Library
Location:
- Plaque west of play area, S. 144th St. and 59th Avenue S.
Historical Information:
- Marcelle and Rudolf Regel Civic Volunteers - Plaque to recognize years of civic service, October 1983.
Please email us at tukparks@ci.tukwila.wa.us or call 206-767-2342, if you have a comment or question about any of our historical sites, and we will forward it to the Tukwila Historical Society for a response.
