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"In the days when Washington was still a territory, Hunts Point
was a favorite camping ground of the Sammamish Indians. Fishing
and hunting were exceedingly good. When Washington became a
state and Seattle grew, the Indians were pushed north and east
and finally stopped coming to the Point altogether. During the
latter part of the nineteenth century, Leigh S. J. Hunt, who
resided at the end of Yarrow Point on property which he had
acquired in the early 1870's from an old homesteader, brought
Hunts Point. He wanted it so that he could cut down the tall
evergreen trees which grew out at the end obstructing his view
of Seattle. Later he named it after himself. At the turn of
the century when Hunt's fortunes waned, this property was taken
over by Puget Sound National Bank and sold to a group of Seattle
men who used it as a family retreat for Sunday picnics and
summer camping. gradually they built small vacation homes here
and spent the whole summer in the Point, which grew into a very
congenial community whose residents commuted to Seattle and
their work via the Gazelle, a small ferry which chugged into
Cozy Cove each morning at 7:15 to pick them up. If there was no
ferry they rowed. One early settler, D. K. MacDonald, recalled
that his sister-in-law was stricken with appendicitis, and he
and his brother had to lay her in a canoe and paddle her over to
Seattle through rough waters to get her to the hospital!
By 1910 electricity and telephones had come to Hunts Point, and
docks now accommodated the ferries. The following year Rural
Postal Service was initiated. With these conveniences, the
summer people began enlarging their small dwellings, adding
furnaces, and plumbing. When schools were available, they
finally gave up their town houses and moved to the Point as
permanent residences. |
A clubhouse was built in 1913 at what is now 3655 Hunts Point
Road. This clubhouse became the center of social activity of
these active, fun-loving people. Tennis courts were built here
also and the Hunts Point Tennis Club was formed. Elaborate
dinner parties, dances and other entertainment were given over
the years to raise money necessary to pay for these
improvements. Every Saturday night something was taking place
at the clubhouse. Tennis and swimming tournaments held sway in
the summer. The summer of 1921 and 1922 saw the biggest project
ever carried out by Hunts Pointers -- "Ja Ba Wa Ka Jinx", the
name derived from Alice in Wonderland. It was a huge fair
staged to raise money, and every person was on a committee.
when there wasn't a committee, they made one. There was even a
"Baby Carriage" committee composed of all the infants of the
Point whose job it was to amuse passersby, thereby collecting
money in the tin cups fastened to the side of the carriages!"
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From the Hunt's Point Historical Page...
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