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Ravenna Creek

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Ravenna creek headwaters
Ravenna creek headwaters

Ravenna Creek is a stream in the Ravenna and Roosevelt neighborhoods of Seattle, Washington, whose present daylighted length of nearly 3,500 feet (1.1 km) is entirely within the Ravenna & Cowen Parks. Ravenna Creek used to drain Green Lake into Lake Washington's Union Bay, but urban development and the lowering of the two lakes in 1911 and 1916 resulted in the disappearance of the creekbed between Green Lake and Cowen Park and between Ravenna Park and Union Bay. Ravenna Creek's current source is a wetland in the northwest corner of Cowen Park, at NE 62nd Street and Brooklyn Avenue NE. It is also fed by springs throughout Ravenna Park, and is joined there by a second branch which begins near the intersection of NE 65th Street and 23rd Avenue NE. Until 2006, the creek ended at a sewer grate where the park's trail system opened into a soccer field. A daylighting project completed in May 2006 disconnected the creek from the sewer system and extended its bed 650 feet (200 m) towards the southeast corner of Ravenna Park, at which point it enters a pipeline. This pipeline, which runs southward along 25th Avenue NE to the NE 45th Street viaduct, empties into University Slough, thereby reconnecting Ravenna Creek to Lake Washington. In 2008, a major sewage spill of 8,000,000 US gallons (30,000,000 L) of raw sewage flooded the creek in an accident caused by King County utility crews working nearby.

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Ravenna Creek
Northeast 55th Street, Seattle University District

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N 47.66854 ° E -122.30245 °
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Northeast 55th Street 2301
98105 Seattle, University District
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Calvary Cemetery (Seattle)
Calvary Cemetery (Seattle)

Calvary Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery in Seattle, Washington, United States, located in the Ravenna/Bryant neighborhood. Dedicated on December 1, 1889, it is situated on the southwest slope of a hill overlooking University Village, about a mile (1.6 km) northeast of the University of Washington. It is owned and operated by the Archdiocese of Seattle. Covering an area of 40 acres (16 ha), the square-shaped cemetery is bounded on the north by N.E. 55th Street, on the east by 35th Avenue N.E., on the south by N.E. 50th Street, and on the west by 30th Avenue N.E. Around 40,000 people are buried in its grounds, including: Vivian E. Albertson, Bellevue School District director from 1982 to 1990 Dave Beck, former president of the Teamsters "Tioga George" Burns, baseball player, the American League's most valuable player in 1926. John Cherberg, lieutenant governor for 32 years, UW football player and head coach Raymond E. Davis, Medal of Honor recipient in 1905 Hec Edmundson, basketball and track coach at the University of Washington Walter Galbraith, former president of Galbraith and Co. and director of Washington Mutual Tubby Graves, baseball head coach at UW Michael J. "Moose" Heney, Alaskan railroad builder Al Hostak, middleweight boxer Jacob Nist, founder of Queen City Manufacturing Company, now the Seattle-Tacoma Box Company Edward Nordhoff, founder of The Bon Marché department store chain William Piggott, founder of Paccar Albert Rosellini, former governorAdditionally, priests of the Archdiocese of Seattle and clergy from a number of religious orders are buried at the cemetery. There is one British Commonwealth war grave, of a Canadian Army soldier of World War I.