Seward Park is a neighborhood in southeast Seattle, Washington just west of the park of the same name. The park itself occupies all of Bailey Peninsula, a prominent, forested peninsula that juts into Lake Washington. The neighborhood is bounded on the east by the lake, on the north by S Genesee Street, on the south by S Kenyon Street, and on the west by Rainier Avenue S. What is now Seward Park neighborhood has been inhabited since the end of the last glacial period (c. 8,000 B.C.E.?10,000 years ago). The Xacuab? (hah-chu-ahbsh, Lake People or People of the Large Lake) were related to, but distinct from, the Dkhw'Duw'Absh, People of the Inside, tribe of the Lushootseed (Skagit-Nisqually) Coast Salish Nations. Both are now (c. mid 1850s) of the Duwamish tribe. The Xacuab? had a village of two longhouses (khwaac'?l'al, forerunners of cohousing condominiums, housing tens of people in each one) at xaxao'Ltc (ha-HAO-hlch, the ?sacred or taboo place?), at or near what is now Brighton Beach. Villages were diffuse. Other khwaac'?l'al were on the southwest lake shore at SExti'tcb (?by means of swimming?, Bryn Mawr), at TL?Ltcus (TLEELH-chus, ?little island?, Pritchard?s Island), and north at Leschi Park.[1] The peninsula that now forms Seward Park was skEba?kst (skuh-BAHKST, ?nose?), and the isthmus was cqa'lapsEb (TSKAH-lap-suhb, ?neck?). The isthmus was only a few hundred feet wide and flooded seasonally, turning the peninsula into an island (the lake level was some 9 ft (3m) higher or more). A large wetland and marsh was north of what is now the park entrance circle, at what is now Andrews Bay. The lake, bay, wetlands, and peninsula were rich in resources. Prairie or tall grassland areas (anthropogenic grasslands) were maintained at what is now Brighton?Seward Park, as well as numerous other locations in what is now Seattle. Besides providing food, the lake was home to powerful spirits. The previously mentioned xaxao'lc ("taboo place") at Brighton Beach south of the peninsula was named for a supernatural spirit who was said to live in the lake there. The unusual sound of the babbling waters place indicated its presence. Near Colman Park lived an ?ya?hos, a horned spirit that was associated with landslides and earthquakes. Remarkably, this is the approximate location of the Seattle Fault, which moved more than 20 ft (6.1 m) vertically about 1100 years ago. This quake caused a landslide at South Point on Mercer Island, sending a large section of forest into the lake?en masse, intact and upright. Little earth beings were said to inhabit the tree stumps there and drove insane a man trying to harvest the bark from the stumps. The preserved forest was discovered and destroyed when the lake was lowered in 1916?17. Courtesy of Wikipedia.org