Fauntleroy King County, Washington

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Fauntleroy: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

 

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General information on Fauntleroy

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Fauntleroy

A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named

Name Description
Fauntleroy Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Fauntleroy

References to Fauntleroy that document the origin of its place name

Title Cover Image: Origin of Washington geographic names

FAUNTLEROY COVE, now the location of one of the westernmost suburbs of the City of Seattle, so named by George Davidson of the United States Coast Survey in 1857, in honor of the surveying brig R. H. Fauntleroy. He had named the brig in honor of Lieutenant Robert Henry Fauntleroy, whose daughter Ellinor became Mrs. Davidson in 1858. In the same year that the young surveyor named the cove he also named the Olympic peaks - one for his sweetheart, one for her two brothers, and one for her sister. Thus originated the names of Mount Ellinor, Mount Constance and The Brothers in plain view from Fauntleroy Cove, Seattle and other parts of Puget Sound. (Edmond S. Meany, in Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume IV., Number 8, July, 1918, pages 182-186.)

Edmond S. Meany in Origin of Washington Geographic Names
Meany, Edmond S., Origin of Washington Geographic Names, 1923 University of Washington, pp 83-84  |  Origin of Washington Geographic Names

 

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Last updated: 2017-06-11