Kenmore’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Kenmore. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The Sammamish River valley from Lake Washington to Issaquah Creek was historically inhabited by the indigenous Sammamish people (also known as the "s-tah-PAHBSH", or "willow people"), a Coast Salish group with an estimated population of 80 to 200 by 1850. Among them were the "ssts'p-abc" ("meander dwellers"), who settled near the river's mouth at two villages—the larger of which was "tlah-WAH-dees" between modern-day Kenmore and Bothell. The Sammamish were removed from their lands in 1856 following the Puget Sound War and moved to the Port Madison and Tulalip Indian reservations. The forested land that would become Kenmore was then owned by Philo Remington of E. Remington and Sons, who subsequently sold it to son-in-law Watson C. Squire, a former governor of the Washington Territory.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Kenmore’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Kenmore’s history is told.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewNorth Lake Washington near Kenmor…, 1901: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Kenmore, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as North Lake Washington near Kenmore, Washington, May 26, 1901 (1901) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Historic places
National Register · via Wikidata
From Wikimedia Commons (11) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.