-Thanks so much for coming to the Lake View Cemetery Walk.
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We are focusing a bit on
some of those lesser known and undersung residents.
You know, there's a lot of famous folks here, the Dennys, the Yeslers.
But we wanted to also talk about
some history that people may not be as familiar with.
So Japanese-American history,
Black pioneers, early madames and sex workers.
So, yeah, just give a little bit more of hopefully
diversity and like a colorful picture.
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-Matajiro Tsukuno started the first Japanese-owned bank in Seattle.
He helped construct the Nippon Kan Theatre, which is still there.
-William Grose, a Black pioneer in Seattle
and the second Black resident of the city.
This is the gravesite of Princess Angeline.
She was the eldest daughter of Chief Seattle.
And her name in Lushootseed was Kikisoblu.
And Kikisoblu herself was living in a shack like structure in an area known
as Shanty Town, that's on the downward slope of what is now Pike Place Market.
Growing up in Seattle, some of you may have heard, you know,
tales about Princess Angeline haunting the market.
It's a very unique cemetery in that it's
the oldest, undisturbed burial grounds in Seattle.
And there's some spooky history here, too.
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-Some say
that this cemetery is not just haunted by crows, but by Dutch Ned,
who has been wandering ]around the cemetery ever since,
looking for his little house.
-These graves with the lambs on them are children.
-We're going to walk down this way and you'll notice that suddenly
all of the gravestones turn red.
It's almost like a red road.
-This is the grave of Mary Ann Conklin, who is also known as Madame Damnable.
She ran Felker House, which was Seattle's first hotel,
and had one of the city's first brothels upstairs.
-You can have
multiple generations of family and friends from here, and I still
I didn't know 75% of what they covered today.
-Well, my hope is that people
learn something new about the history and the people who came before us.
In the grand scheme of things, like it really wasn't ancient history
that we're talking about.
The people, the topics, the trees are very much still relevant to Seattle today.
Not vanishing (laughs), yes
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