{"id":337,"date":"2026-04-11T22:28:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2026-04-11T23:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:17:13","slug":"history-of-the-town-of-ravenna-and-its-later-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/11\/history-of-the-town-of-ravenna-and-its-later-development\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Town of Ravenna and Its Later Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Anne O’Neill, staff member at the Merrill Gardens Independent Senior Living Apartments asked if FORC could present a history lecture for their community. https:\/\/www.merrillgardens.com\/senior-living\/wa\/seattle\/merrill-gardens-at-the-university\/<\/a> Board member Larry E. Johnson, AIA researched the immediate area that the facility is located in, including University Village, and prepared a slide show covering the time between when the area was used by native people up until the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The presentation was well received by at least 40 of the residents and we will be scheduling a followup walking tour Ravenna Park with them later this spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The presentation is available to download at our website: https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anne O’Neill, staff member at the Merrill Gardens Independent Senior Living Apartments asked if FORC could present a history lecture for their community. https:\/\/www.merrillgardens.com\/senior-living\/wa\/seattle\/merrill-gardens-at-the-university\/ Board member Larry E. Johnson, AIA researched the immediate area that the facility is located in, including University Village, and prepared a slide show covering the time between when the area […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}