Luke McRedmond Cache Traditional Cache
Puppers: Given all the building in the area the cache location is no longer desirable to us. Opening up for someone else.
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Cache is located in Luke McRedmond Park located along the Sammamish River Trail.
The park makes a good rest stop along the trail. The park offers a large lawn, a picnic shelter, several outside outside tables and BBQ's. There also is a canoe launch. The park is also easily driven to.
Luke McREDMOND, whom the park is named after was born about 1818 in Knockhill, County Kings, Ireland. He emigrated to America when yet a young man and in 1849, at the time of the discovery of gold in California, was living in Memphis, Tennessee, working at the government Navy yard near that city. In 18_ _ (looks like 1850) , he journeyed around the Horn to California where he settled. One year later he again set sail, this time for Puget Sound. In 1870, the first official census of Seattle listed 1,107 people.
On September 9, 1870, Luke McREDMOND obtained patent
for 32.4 acres of land in area later to be named for him - Redmond, King County, WA.
Luke McREDMOND had built a rough log cabin for the homestead on an earlier scouting mission to the area. ....It was not too long before they met their only neighbors - a group of Indians living on Lake Sammamish. The area was then known as Squak, an Indian name of uncertain meaning. Native Americans had lived here for thousands of years. Squak Slough was later renamed the Sammamish River. Redmond was for some time known as Salmonberg, because of the abundance of dog
salmon in the Sammamish River.
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