Kirkland Centennial

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Kirkland's City History

Take a journey into Kirkland’s past. Learn about the city’s founder, Peter Kirk, and his enterprising endeavors of expanding his steel production company from Europe to America. Discover how Kirkland grew through its wool milling and shipbuilding industries and then flourished into a lakeside suburb on the “Eastside” of Seattle.