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| | Issaquah Ferry Pilot Houses - Issaquah Buildings & Sites |
 | | One of those articles was entitled "Ferry Issaquah is Seeing Her Last Days." Later, the wheelhouses and walls of the ferry were saved when the mudflats on which the ferry rested were developed into today's Waldo Point houseboat development. |
 | | She was launched with appropriate banners and festivities involving the mayors of both Seattle and Issaquah, but, to the chagrin of the launchers, her 9 foot draft proved too deep for the lake show bottom, and she had to be freed from her "stuck-in-the-mud" position the day after launching. |
 | | In 1917, the competition from the growing King County Ferry System put an end to the practical operation of a private system, and, in 1918, this neat, compact ferry boat, with its twin smokestacks and pilot houses, was sold to a San Francisco Bay transportation company. |
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