Don Sherwood Park History Sheets
Seattle Parks and Recreation's Sherwood History Files are the incredible legacy of Donald N. Sherwood (1916-1981), who worked as an engineer for Parks for 22 years from 1955 to 1977.
In the course of his work, which included designing buildings and producing brochures, Sherwood began compiling sketch maps of the parks, annotating them with historical information. He started writing individual histories for each facility when the information didn't fit on the maps.
In the early 1970s, Sherwood discovered that older department files were being destroyed as employees retired. Sherwood urged that valuable Parks records be sorted and preserved. In 1972 he was assigned the responsibility. Although given little time to perform this duty, Sherwood threw himself into the activity with vigor, and continued this work until his position was eliminated, due to a budget reduction, in 1977.
Some additional material was added to the collection after this date by various Park Department employees. Sherwood continued his research and writing on the history of Seattle parks until his death in November 1981. The original histories and drawings of the parks he generated after leaving City employment were donated to the Museum of History and Industry following his death. The complete files he assembled are available for use at the Seattle Municipal Archives. For more detailed information about the Sherwood History Files, please visit the Guide to the Don Sherwood Parks History Collection in the Seattle Municipal Archives.
Sherwood's parks history sheets have been digitized and are linked below.
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- 12th Ave. S Viewpoint (PDF 160k)
- 12th W. and W. Howe Park (PDF 70k)
- 14th Ave. NW Boat Ramp (PDF 164k)
- 37th Ave. S Park (PDF 233k)
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- Alki Beach Park (PDF 1670k)
- Alki Playground (PDF 545k)
- Alvin Larkins Park (PDF 94k)
- Amy Yee Tennis Center (PDF 72k)
- Anderson Park, Cal SEE Bobby Morris Playfield (PDF 1.6M)
- Andover Place (PDF 202k)
- Armeni Boat Ramp, Don (PDF 489k)
- Atlantic City Park (PDF 272k)
B
- B.F. Day Playground (PDF 173k)
- Bagley Viewpoint (PDF 520k)
- Ballard Boulevard (PDF 340k)
- Ballard Playground (PDF 353k)
- Ballard Pool (PDF 211k)
- Bar-S Playground (PDF 291k)
- Barnett Park (PDF 321k)
- Bathhouse Theatre (PDF 205k)
- Bayview Playground (PDF 335k)
- Beacon Hill Playground (PDF 136k)
- Beacon Place (PDF 424k)
- Beck Place (PDF 258k)
- Beer Sheva Park SEE Atlantic City Boat Ramp (PDF 272k)
- Belvedere Viewpoint (PDF 421k)
- Belvoir Place (PDF 189k)
- Benefit Playground (PDF 93k)
- Bergen Place (PDF 475k)
- Bhy Kracke Park (PDF 528k)
- Bitter Lake Playfield (PDF 439k)
- Blaine Place (PDF 210k)
- Blue Ridge Places/Circle (PDF 280k)
- Boat ramps & moorages (PDF 82k)
- Bobby Morris Playfield (PDF 1.6M)
- Boren Park Lookout (PDF 186k)
- Boren-Pike-Pine Park (PDF 153k)
- Boren Place (PDF 360k)
- Bradner Gardens Park (PDF 151k)
- Brighton Playfield (PDF 86k)
- Broadway Playfield (playfield name 1922-1980) SEE Bobby Morris Playfield (PDF 1.6M)
- Bryant Playground (PDF 60k)
- Burke-Gilman Playground (PDF 95k)
- Burke-Gilman Trail (PDF 3500k)
C
- Cal Anderson Park SEE Bobby Morris Playfield (PDF 1.6M)
- California Place (PDF 226k)
- Camp Long (PDF 293k)
- Carkeek Park (PDF 1006k)
- Carleton Center (PDF 185k)
- Cascade Place (PDF 250k)
- Cascade Playground (PDF 384k)
- Cheasty Boulevard (PDF 638k)
- Christie Park (PDF 201k)
- City Hall Park (PDF 144k)
- Cleveland Playfield (PDF 340k)
- Coe Play Park (PDF 59k)
- College Street Park (PDF 150k)
- Collins Park (PDF 144k)
- Colman Park (PDF 108k)
- Colman Playground (PDF 1006k)
- Colman Triangle (PDF 145k)
- Columbia Park (PDF 491k)
- Commodore Park (PDF 844k)
- Condon Way Centerstrip (PDF 241k)
- Corliss Place (PDF 370k)
- Cowen Park (PDF 136k)
- Cowen/Ravenna Park/Blvd (PDF 717k)
- Crescent Place (PDF 370k)
D
- Dahl Playfield (PDF 141k)
- Davis Park (Lake City) (PDF 209k)
- Day Playground, B. F. (PDF 173k)
- Day Street Boat Ramp (PDF 395k)
- Dearborn Park (PDF 243k)
- Delridge Community Center (PDF 74k)
- Delridge Playfield (PDF 374k)
- Denny-Blaine Lake Park (PDF 483k)
- Denny Blaine Park (PDF 698k)
- Denny Park (PDF 930k)
- Denny Camp, O. O. (PDF 631k)
- Discovery Park (PDF 1290k)
- Don Armeni Boat Ramp (PDF 489k)
- Duwamish Waterway Park (PDF 103k)
E
- E.C. Hughes Playground (PDF 121k)
- East Magnolia Playground (PDF 74k)
- East (and West) Montlake Park (PDF 467k)
- East Queen Anne Playground (PDF 274k)
- Eastlake Triangle (PDF 230k)
- Eastmont Place (PDF 238k)
- Edwards Park, Myrtle (PDF 541k)
- Edwin Pratt Park (PDF 1300k))
- Emma Schmitz Memorial Overlook (PDF 391k)
- Evans Pool (PDF 164k)
- Evers Pool, Medgar (PDF 178k)
F
- Fairmount Park (PDF 475k)
- Fairmount Playground (PDF 608k)
- Fauntleroy Park (PDF 248k)
- Fauntleroy Place (PDF 182k)
- Ferdinand Street Ramp (PDF 360k)
- Firehouse Mini Park (PDF 146k)
- First Hill Park (PDF 168k)
- Fishing piers (PDF 571k)
- Flo Ware Park (PDF 294k)
- Fletcher Place (PDF 317k)
- Fort Dent Athletic Center (PDF 731k)
- Fourteenth Ave. NW Boat Ramp (PDF 164k)
- Frazier Park, Prentis I. (PDF 129k)
- Freeway Park (PDF 1440k)
- Fremont Canal Park (PDF 97k)
- Frink Park (PDF 672k)
- Froula Playground (PDF 139k)
G
- GAR Cemetery (PDF181k)
- Garfield Playfield and Community Center (PDF 275k)
- Gas Works Park (PDF 219k)
- Genesee Park and Playfield (PDF 548k)
- Georgetown Playground (PDF 95k)
- Gilman Playground (PDF 128k)
- Golden Gardens Park (PDF 788k)
- Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery (PDF181k)
- Green Lake/Woodland Park/Evans Pool (PDF 2420k)
- Greenwood Triangle (PDF 141k)
- Grose Park (PDF 120k)
H
- Hamilton Viewpoint (PDF 348k)
- Hamlin Park (PDF 169k)
- Harborview Park (PDF 450k)
- Harbor Vista Park (PDF 333k)
- Harrison Ridge Park (PDF 373k)
- Hiawatha Playfield and Community Center (PDF 461k)
- Highland Drive Parkway (PDF 157k)
- Highland Greenbelt Park (PDF 128k)
- Highland Park Playground (PDF 100k)
- High Point Community Center and Playfield (PDF 355k)
- Hing Hay Park (PDF 235k)
- Horton Hill Corridor (PDF 58k)
- Howell Park (PDF 438k)
- Hubbell Place (PDF 141k)
- Hughes Playground, E.C. (PDF 121k)
- Hunter Boulevard (PDF 429k)
- Hutchinson Playground (PDF 393k)
- Hyde Place (PDF 321k)
I
- Interbay Athletic Field/Golf Course (PDF 684k)
- Interlaken Park and Boulevard (PDF 1007k)
- International Children's Park (PDF 93k)
- Inverness Ravine Park (PDF 198k)
J
- Jackson Park Golf Course (PDF 570k)
- Jefferson Park Golf Course (PDF 366k)
- Jefferson Playfield (PDF 171k)
- Jose Rizal Park, Dr. (PDF 978k)
- Judkins Park and Playfield (PDF 139k)
K
- Kerry Viewpoint (PDF 88k)
- Keystone Place (PDF 182k)
- Kilbourne Park (PDF 316k)
- Kinnear Park (PDF 812k)
- Kiwanis Memorial (PDF 193k)
- Kobe Terrace (PDF 496k)
- Kracke Park, Bhy (PDF 528k)
L
- Lakeridge Park and Playground (PDF 589k)
- Lake View Park (PDF 601k)
- Lakeview Place (PDF 188k)
- Lake Washington Boulevard (PDF 2220k)
- Lakewood Moorage (PDF 324k)
- Lakewood Playground (PDF 290k)
- Lakewood Triangle (PDF 342k)
- Lambert Place (PDF 297k)
- Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center (PDF 1930k)
- Larkins Park, Alvin (PDF 94k)
- Laurelhurst Playfield and Community Center (PDF 173k)
- Laurelhurst Triangle (PDF 244k)
- Lawton Park (PDF 262k)
- Leschi Moorage (North) (PDF 156k)
- Leschi Park (PDF 913k)
- Lewis Park (PDF 383k)
- Licton Springs Park (PDF 328k)
- Lincoln Park, Historic (now Cal Anderson Park) SEE Bobby Morris Playfield (PDF 1.6M)
- Lincoln Park (PDF 1004k)
- Lowman Beach Park (PDF 120k)
- Loyal Heights Playfield and Community Center (PDF 191k)
M
- Madison Park (PDF 1570k)
- Madison Memorial Pool (PDF 185k)
- Madrona Briar Patch (PDF 79k)
- Madrona Park (PDF 752k)
- Madrona Playground (PDF 533k)
- Magnolia Playfield and Community Center (PDF 161k)
- Magnolia Tidelands (PDF 168k)
- Magnuson Park (PDF 1400k)
- Maple Leaf Playground (PDF 133k)
- Maplewood Playfield (PDF 144k)
- Marshall Park (PDF 149k)
- Matthews Beach Park (PDF 217k)
- Mayfair Park (PDF 169k)
- McClellan Place (PDF 277k)
- McCurdy Park (PDF 533k)
- McGilvra Boulevard Centerstrip (PDF 409k)
- McGilvra Place (PDF 110k)
- McGraw Square (PDF 171k)
- Me-Kwa-Mooks/Schmitz Overlook (PDF 391k)
- Meadowbrook Playfield and Community Center (PDF 894k)
- Medgar Evers Pool (PDF 178k)
- Meridian Playground (PDF 156k)
- Miller Playfield and Community Center (PDF 234k)
- Montlake Playfield and Community Center (PDF 1860k)
- Montlake Park, East/West, & Centerstrip (PDF 467k)
- Montlake Tot Lot (PDF 47k)
- Montvale Triangles (PDF 220k)
- Bobby Morris Playfield (PDF 1.6M)
- Mount Baker Boulevard (PDF 158k)
- Mount Baker Park (PDF 1340k)
- Myrtle Edwards Park (PDF 541k)
N
- Northacres Park (PDF 385k)
- North Beach Park (PDF 182k)
- North Passage Point Park (PDF 1140k)
- North Seattle Park (PDF 138k)
O
- O. O. Denny Camp (PDF 631k)
- Observatory Courts (PDF 679k)
- Occidental Square (PDF 1480k)
- Olympic Place (PDF 169k)
- Othello Playground (PDF 421k)
P
- Park Home Circle (PDF 251k)
- Parkmont Place (PDF 395k)
- Parsons Garden (PDF 178k)
- Peppi's Playground (PDF 163k)
- Pinehurst Playground (PDF 81k)
- Pioneer Square (PDF 1460k)
- Plum Tree Park (PDF 256k)
- Powell Barnett Park (PDF 321k)
- Pratt Park, Edwin (PDF 1300k)
- Prefontaine Place (PDF 162k)
- Prentis I. Frazier Park (PDF 129k)
- Pritchard Island Beach (PDF 807k)
- Puget Boulevard (PDF 100k)
- Puget Park (PDF 205k)
Q
- Queen Anne Boulevard (PDF 2410k)
- Queen Anne Playfield (PDF 176k)
R
- Rainbow Point (PDF 77k)
- Rainier Beach Community Center (PDF 498)
- Rainier Beach Lake Park Cottages (PDF 179)
- Rainier Beach Playfield (PDF 140)
- Rainier Place (PDF 139k)
- Rainier Playfield and Community Center (PDF 566k)
- Ravenna Boulevard (PDF 914k)
- Ravenna-Eckstein Community Center (PDF 914k)
- Ravenna Park (PDF 1570k)
- Red Barn Ranch (PDF 1040k)
- Regrade Park (PDF 72k)
- Ridgeway Place (PDF 272k)
- Riverview Playfield (PDF 543k)
- Rizal Park, Dr. Jose (PDF 978k)
- Roanoke Park (PDF 484k)
- Rodgers Park (PDF 496k)
- Rogers Playground (PDF 519k)
- Ross Playground (PDF 129k)
- Roxhill Playground (PDF 374k)
S
- Sacajawea Playground (PDF 265k)
- Salmon Bay Park (PDF 359k)
- Sandel Playground (PDF 149k)
- Sayres Memorial Park (PDF 797k)
- Schmitz Boulevard (PDF 415k)
- Schmitz Memorial Overlook, Emma (PDF 391k)
- Schmitz Preserve Park (PDF 835k)
- Seattle Aquarium (PDF 729k)
- Seattle Center (PDF 770k)
- Seola Park (PDF 288k)
- Seward Park (PDF 1170k)
- Sierra Place (PDF 193k)
- Soundview Playfield (PDF 352k)
- Soundview Terrace (PDF 168k)
- South Park Playground and Community Center (PDF 333k)
- South Passage Point Park (PDF 1140k)
- Southwest Community Center and Pool (PDF 126k)
- Spring Street Mini Park (PDF 383k)
- Spruce Street Mini Park (PDF 103k)
- Steinbrueck Park, Victor (PDF 780k)
- Stevens Triangle (PDF 420k)
- Sturgus Park (PDF 203k)
- Summit Place (PDF 404k)
- Sunnyside North Ramp (PDF 165k)
- Sunset Hill Park (PDF 129k)
- Sunset Place (PDF 200k)
T
- Tashkent Mini Park (PDF 435k)
- Thayer Place (PDF 986k)
- Thirty-Seventh Ave S. Park (PDF 233k)
- Thomas Mini Park (PDF 131k)
- Thornton Creek Parks (PDF 493k)
- Tilikum Place (PDF 697k)
- Twelfth Ave. S Viewpoint (PDF 160k)
- Twelfth W. & W. Howe Park (PDF 70k)
U
- Union Station Square (PDF 222k)
- University Circle (PDF 343k)
- University Lake Shore Place (PDF 343k)
- University Place (PDF 148k)
- University Playground (PDF 464k)
- University of Washington (PDF 377k)
V
- Van Asselt Playground and Community Center (PDF 174k)
- Victory Heights Playground (PDF 320k)
- Victor Steinbrueck Park (PDF 703k)
- View Ridge Playfield (PDF 117k)
- Viretta Park (PDF 454k)
- Volunteer Park (PDF 1280k)
W
- Wallingford Playfield (PDF 178k)
- Ware Park, Flo (PDF 294k)
- Washington Park (PDF 2390k)
- Washington School, Martha (PDF 377k)
- Waterfront Park (PDF 722k)
- Wedgwood Square (PDF 343k)
- Westcrest (PDF 121k)
- Westlake Square (PDF 175k)
- West Ewing Mini Park (PDF 71k)
- West (and East) Montlake Park (PDF 467k)
- West Magnolia Playfield (PDF 161k)
- West Seattle Golf Course (PDF 1020k)
- West Seattle Stadium (PDF 331k)
- Williams Place (PDF 276k)
- Woodland Park (PDF 1570k)
- Woodland Park Zoo (PDF 1839k)
Y
- Yesler Playground and Community Center (PDF 215k)
- Yesler Way (PDF 294k)
- York Playground (PDF 109k)