Tag: Burien
Burien ( /ˈbjʊəriən/ BYUR-ee-ən) is a city in King County, Washington, United States, located south of Seattle. As of the 2010 Census, Burien’s population is 33,313, which is a 2.9% increase since incorporation. Annexation in 2011 has increased the cities population to about 45,000.
European settlement in the Burien area dates to 1864, when George Ouellet, a French-Canadian from Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce, Quebec, purchased his first of several land patents for a homestead site directly from a Federal land office. A popular local tale recounts that an early settler named Mike Kelly gave the community its first name after emerged from the trees and said, “This is truly a sunny dale.” Today, a few long-time residents still refer to the Burien area as Sunnydale.
Ten years later, Gottlieb Burian and his wife, German immigrants from Lower Silesia who owned taverns in downtown Seattle, arrived in Sunnydale, which was only a community of trails and small houses without roads or commercial…
