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Licton Springs or '''North College Park''' is a neighborhood in the Northgate informal district of North Seattle . It is bounded by Interstate 5 to the east, beyond which is Maple Leaf neighborhood and the Northgate Mall ; Aurora Avenue N ( SR 99 ) to the west, beyond which is Greenwood ; N 85th Street to the south, beyond which is Green Lake , and N 105th Street and N Northgate Way to the north, beyond which is Haller Lake .(1) LICTON SPRINGS Licton Springs celebrates its long history as both a unique recreational spot and a commercial crossroads. The residential neighborhood wedged between the busy corridors of Interstate 5 and Aurora Avenue takes its name from ''Liq'tid'' (''LEEK-teed'') or Licton, the (c. 8,000 B.C.E.—10,000 years ago). In the 1850s, the ''Dkhw’Duw’Absh'' and ''Xacuabš'' became the Duwamish Tribe of today. EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT Seattle pioneer David Denny built a summer cabin (c. 1870). The natural Spring fed Green Lake before it was capped and drained to the Metro sewer system after it became contaminated by residential development (1920, 1931). The Olmsted Brothers designed a park for Licton Springs, as part of a grand streets and parks plan for Seattle (1930s), but this park was never implemented. All that remains is where Woodlawn Avenue curves to connect with N 95th Street. The spring is today located in Licton Springs Park . In the mid-1960s restoration began with bond issues and increasing volunteer assistance, resulting in a small pond and natural wetland vegetation as well as urban park amenities.Sheridan & Tobin, Wilma, ed. A Native American presence continues in the neighborhood through the Indian Heritage School at Wilson-Pacific. This school hosts frequent Indian Pow Wows and spectacular wall murals by Indian artist Andrew Morrison. The Everett and Interurban Railway Company (1900-1936)Then variously the Seattle-Everett Traction Company and the Pacific Northwest Traction Company. came past the neighborhood in 1906. The trolleys became a part of everyday life and development of residential neighborhoods around trolley stops. Running on a narrow right-of-way through backyards, the whistle became part of the atmosphere of neighborhoods like Licton Springs. In the early years, the line ran through cut forest and rural farms. A few sawmills along the way gave the line a business hauling lumber. The rough wagon road became Aurora Avenue N (1930) after being paved with brick (1913) and asphalt (1928). A most distinctive early feature was the motorist "tourist camps", "auto camps", and later, "auto courts", then the now-familiar motels. One or two still remained at the turn of the 20th century. The Pilling family had a dairy farm (1909-1933), out of which grew the waterfowl habitat and birding site of Pillings Pond today.Walter & local Audubon chapters Japanese-Americans had greenhouses and small farms until they were abruptly forcibly removed with the Japanese American Internment (1942-1945). NORTH COLLEGE PARK Seattle annexed most of North Seattle in 1954.(1) Phelps, pp. 220-224. (2) Sheridan & Tobin North College Park became defined with the Licton Springs neighborhood with the establishment of North Seattle Community College (1970). Licton Springs and the Sunny Walter–Pillings Pond are part of the Densmore Drainage Basin. The springs at the North Police Precinct and North Seattle Community College are headwaters of the south fork of Thornton Creek ; this fork flows through culverts under I-5 and the south lot of Northgate Mall development.Walter & local Audubon chaptersBowditch, Wang, & Wilson These neighborhoods are natural extensions of Maple Leaf downstream.Brokaw Neighborhood activists and North Seattle Community College (NSCC) have been promoting habitat restoration in support.(1) Hodson (2) SEE ALSO
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