Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Magnolia/Madrona

November 20, 2012

As Captain George Vancouver sailed past the bluffs rising abruptly from the water just north of what is now Seattle, he mistook the trees growing on the cliffs for Magnolias.  They were actually Madronas.  And so it is that the hill just west of our Queen Anne Hill is named Magnolia and not Madrona.


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