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I. Fort Ste achoin
9E01 StellarViirlin Blvd,
2, Poysti ip Rise Bridge_
N. Levee Rei
3FarrithorisolBarn
37153 Military lid.
^#. lovita Land Company
Rafite Hoaxc
4600 S. 3tol h St,
x, Suthcrlarxn s Store
S. 312nd S3 I Military Rd-
6, World Wee [t Duplex
S,342 dSt.ofMitltarylid.,
behind Sutherland's Store
£. Star Late Inn
3418E t. Star Lake Rd.
d, Mar Wm School
S.27 n4Sr 'tt&tars .Rd.
9. Eire mint1ch' Dag Park
S. 228th 53 f Military Rd.
Fv. Riverton Farmhouse
S. 13191 Si, off Military Rd.
11. Riverton Dairy- Ba rri
S. 131st St. off Military Rd,
Thank sE„r for bean -
Military Road
12, Van Asoth School
7201 Beacon Ave,-S
13, icClvllatt Flate=43rrct
Bea Ate. z,/McClellan St,
1.4. Wilson Mattelnhe Works
.off Elliott} , Is,
IS, St Al .hoe.=_us Rhoel
5816 15th Am NW
10. Ballard Malta Uso ttld
2t At'e_`5'fNil602ISI.,
17, Kenmore. COMM, Club
7304 NE 175th St,
IS. ked lirfck Road Park
i-Koy 523 r 9501A8, ? 5
19, Lake McMurray More
22505 St Rio 4. Mt Vernon
20. Ss twist: Hwy Garage
Old Hwy9,southot Lake
Sa rnilt Read
21_ Pilot 1Touse
910 Bancroft St,. Bellingham
12. Port B4119031-9 site
0-. s€ of Fort Bell i€a karat Rd.,
south of Mariose tar_
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Camilk.Meador Chris Melt Museum of Historyagi Indtoo `
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Tgc Pickett Sec tat); Snohomish Histosical Sec:coi Ykki
Stilts, Shwa. Historical Ms-sews:.Cato3 Sioui. Hista-is Fort
5?a L+coom= Wsshirston State Hioorial 5xitsy
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UNITED DAUGHTERS
OF THE CONF€DDRACY8
Robert E, Lea Chapter sao
CULTURE Seattle, WA- USA
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CIVIL WAR HISTORY in
WASHINGTON TERRITORY
MILITARY
ROAD:
FOLLOW THE ROAD
FROM
FORT STEILACOOM
TO
FORT BELLINGHAM
WASHINCTQN TERRITORY —Retaining itsotigi
and general mute throughout South King County. Milner
Road is a section of the Fon
Steilacoom»Pon Bellingham
Road, pan of a network of Military
Roads constructed in the Pacific
Northwest under the supervision
of the US Ariisv to the 1850s.
Hostilities between Natives and
sonic spurred Congress. with
the support of Seereta, r of War
and future Confederate President
Jefferson Davis. to appropriate
#35,000 in 1857 to construct a land
orate between the two forts to move
t. s and supplies and lice -Matt
scttfensent in the remote Puget Sound Country.
Trawling on foot with a pocket compass and
au axe to mark try along the way, Army
Captain W.W. De Lacy began suncying the
unsettled wilderness accompanied by a crew
of sec Native Americans and thrcr sctticrs:
the area was so densdy'wooded pack animals
could not he us€d.
Construction began in l'>8 under the
s oa of Lieutenant George H.
he road was completed to Seattle
860. Throughout its length the
in the vicinity'- the
gas stations of the pre -motor buggy era. in
South Kin$ County. Army troops camped
at the three lakes the Road connects' Five -
Lake. Star Lake and .Angle lake.
Fite Mile Lake derives its name from the
fact it is fire miles from the Carson's Ferry Crossibg os the
Puyallup River = the same location as the modern Pig a
River Bridge. The gravel footpath along the lake is a remnant
the original wagon roaet
the I)ua-ruttish Riser 'al
Field - to Errant n i i t and Rory there alon
rough little mill town called Seattle_ Crossing Sa
continuing north thro.h prrsent'd.ay
Ballard. the Road unversed cut along
the north shore of Lake Washington,
kan:ag the swamps along
d crest4sJ1y
1858 -1860
FORT STEILACOOM
to
FORT BELLINGHAM
FIRST TELEGRAPH LINE IN
WASHINGTON TERRITORY
REACHED SEATTLE:
OCTOBER 1S84
Road Encourages
Settlement & Commerce!:
-e
Eellingham along the present routes of
Highway 99 and interstate-5.
Captain George Pickett was in charge
of construction at the northern end
road from Whatcoro to Fort
Beninghatn. f Gorge 8. McClellan. Joseph
Hooker arid Ulysses S. Cram were among
other future Civil War generals assigned
to the Pacific Northwest as ivaiar officers
is the 18alsa number of whom were
invoked in Military Road construction_
The first telegraph line in Washington
Territory- was strrgg along the length of
the Road is 186d.
Carved out of the wilderness on the etc of
the Civil War, Military Road sacauraga!
dement and commere_c and enabled
people and sappl