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Cranberry Bog (H1)

The basin where Northgate Shopping Center and North Seattle Community College are now located was once an extensive, 85 acre cranberry bog wetland. A band of the Duwamish people known as tu-oh-beh-DAHBSH used a temporary village here as a base for seasonal harvesting of wild cranberries (Vaccinium oxycoccos) and other food from the bog. They named this place “Slo'q'qed” or "bald head" due to its lack of trees.

Thornton Creek Watershed Virtual Tour

An online look at a living urban watershed

The wild cranberry bog at left (in Finland) is very similar to what the historical bog would have looked like at the headwaters of the south fork of Thornton Creek in the early twentieth century.

Currently the site of the cranberry bog is covered by Northgate Mall, Interstate 5, and North Seattle Community College. The last remnant of the bog, Square Lake, was paved over by Northgate's "South Lot" in the 1970's.

The Thornton Creek Watershed Virtual Tour is in draft form. Please send comments to homewaters@sccd.ctc.edu.
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