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Take a historical Hilloween tour of Capitol Hill’s Lake View Cemetery

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(Image: Kate Clark)

How about including a tour of Capitol Hill’s most populous final resting place in your Hilloween plans?

The Capitol Hill Historical Society is back with its popular walking tours with plans for a visit to Lake View Cemetery in October:

As perhaps Seattle’s most famous cemetery, Lake View is the final resting place of many prominent early Seattleites, including the Dennys, Maynards, Mercers, Yeslers, and Chief Seattle’s daughter, Kikisoblu, also known as Princess Angeline. The tour will explore their stories, along with those of the notorious Madam Damnable, beloved martial artists and actors, Bruce and Brandon Lee, and more. Those on the tour will also gain insight into the history of the cemetery itself, as well as its place in the wider surrounding neighborhood.

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$28,000 land deal will make you a resident of Capitol Hill — forever

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From Casey’s listing

The $50,000 Capitol Hill parking spot is now down to $38,000 but you still might better spend your money on eternal Capitol Hill residency — for you and your closest friend.

Of all the things to find on Craigslist, a new listing is advertising a double plot in the coveted “Blue Zone” of Capitol Hill’s Lake View Cemetery on the market for $28,000.

Other plots are available in the densely populated cemetery eternally home to more than 40,000 souls but finding a pair in the most popular area of the graveyard and so conveniently located is unusual. It is also being offered at a steep discount — similar sites list above $35,000, the poster claims.

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Here Lie Ten Suffragists: Capitol Hill’s Lake View Cemetery part of effort to mark history of women’s right to vote

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A grassroots movement is honoring the gravesites of Washington suffragists including some right here on Capitol Hill, marking 100 years of the 19th Amendment that granted women the right to vote and providing an important reflection on the past as the first woman to be elected U.S. Vice President prepares to take office.

Washington state won and lost the women’s right to vote four times before the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920, a process that took resilience and determination.

“[Suffragists] had to continually fight these societal norms. As much as they tried to use logic and the constitution, what really won the argument was these women had to demonstrate that . . . just because they got the right to vote doesn’t mean they were going to abandon their domestic duties and their husbands and their children,” ThankHer2020’s organizer Starlyn Nackos explained.

“It’s frustrating, but it’s also fascinating at the same time. The women that were so influential and successful were the ones who used those arguments. The first time women were able to successfully vote was because they hosted a picnic luncheon at the polling station.” Continue reading →