Sand Point

Recalling Sand Point's famous pioneer aviator visitors
01/01 Jet City Maven
I was nine years old in 1927 when I happened to be walking along N. 42nd Street near Woodlawn Ave. and passed a man in the other direction. ³It looks like Lindbergh is going to make it,² he said, seemingly to no one in particular.

Magnuson Park's creaky Sound Garden awaiting a tune-up
7/22/00 The Seattle P-I
Eighteen years after its creation, Seattle's Sound Garden is still cranking out music.

Pictorial History of Sand Point: From Mud Lake to Magnuson Park
HistoryLink
Sand Point is a low-lying peninsula jutting eastward into Lake Washington approximately at NE 70th Street in Seattle.

History of Sand Point
Citizen's Sand Point Planning Association
Formed by glaciers, Sand Point Peninsula originally was a place of graceful contours and hillocks cradling a spring fed, 15 acre lake.

The Burke-Gilman Trail
Jan Paul (1993)
Little did Thomas Burke and Daniel Gilman realize when they were working on bringing rail service to Seattle, that their names would become household words  in Seattle less than 100 years later.

A long list of Sand Point articles from HistoryLink