Thursday, March 18, 2010

Embedded in the Louisa Boren Memorial stone is a tablet bearing the following inscription:

IN HONOR
OF ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON,
ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE
CITY OF SEATTLE,
AND THE LAST SURVIVOR OF THE HISTORIC GROUP OF MEN AND
WOMEN AT ALKI POINT NOV. 13TH 1851, THIS PARK WAS NAMED
LOUISA BOREN
BY THE CITY PARK COMMISSIONERS,
AND THIS TABLET PLACED BY THE
WASHINGTON WOMEN'S PIONEER AUXILLIARY
JUNE 1ST 1914.

Louisa Boren Tablet, Mar. 14, 2010
Copyright © 2010 Paul D. Natkin, All Rights Reserved

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