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Next to North Seattle College, there is a historic piece of land that was once a hub for the Japanese community. This natural greenbelt was the location of the Green Lake Gardens Company, run by the Kumasaka family, who also lived at the site from 1919 until 1968.

For 50 years, the history of the land has remained buried. It might have stayed that way if not for the persistence of Dr. Alicia Valentino, an associate faculty member in the Edmonds College anthropology department. She had been looking for a local site to lead an archaeological field study and first heard about the land in 2016. It took six years, but in conjunction with Edmonds College and North Seattle College, Valentino led a four-week archeological excavation of the land. She conducted a field program that not only introduced students to the archaeological field and lab methods but also revisited an overlooked part of the Japanese community that once occupied this unique piece of property.