In 1852, John Harvey and E. A. Clark staked adjacent claims over the hill and across the valley on Clark's Prairie, the anthropogenic grassland of the "Xacuabš" (the People of the Large Lake), who are thought to have had a village of two longhouses—"khwaac'ál'al", which housed tens of people near a sacred place on adjacent Brighton Beach. These places are in what is now the Brighton neighborhood. ("See also History of Seattle before white settlement.") With his new location in town (and the village dispossessed), Clark became the county auditor and a justice of the peace in 1855.