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Wood-blocked Alley
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Green Bay Trail
This point marks the beginning of the ancient Native Ameri...
Chin Gee Hee Building
The historic Chin Gee Hee building is the “last remn...
Pike Place Urban Garden
The Pike Place Urban Garden is a 2,000 square foot rooftop...
Eagle Harbor Superfund Site
The Pacific Creosoting Plant/Wyckoff Facility was formerly...
Elliott Bay Seawall
Seattle’s seawall represents how incredibly transien...
Ballast Island
Ballast Island is an important site in both the history of...
Blakely Rock
Blakely Rock is a diving site southeast of Eagle Harbor an...
Pioneer Building
The Pioneer Building is the product of a construction boom...
Winslow Warf Marina/Hall Brothers Shipyard
Hall Brothers Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Company was ...
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Wood-blocked Alley
Before asphalt covered miles of urban streets and alleys, roadways were paved with a variety of materials, depending on local conditions and what municipalities had on hand. Chicago had easy ...
Green Bay Trail
This point marks the beginning of the ancient Native American trail to what is now Green Bay, Wisconsin. The path marched north from the Chicago River along what is now Rush Street to Chicago Avenue and then traveled northwest until ...
Chin Gee Hee Building
The historic Chin Gee Hee building is the “last remnant” of Seattle’s original Chinatown.[1]
Seattle’s original Chinatown sat near Mill Street and First Avenue but moved to Washington Street between Second and Third Avenues in the ...
Pike Place Urban Garden
The Pike Place Urban Garden is a 2,000 square foot rooftop community garden aimed at creating a place for volunteers, Pike Place Senior Center residents, and market visitors to meet. The garden is maintained by a team of volunteers and ...
Eagle Harbor Superfund Site
The Pacific Creosoting Plant/Wyckoff Facility was formerly one of the largest creosote plants in the world. Its products were used in major construction projects such as the Northern Pacific Railway and the Panama Canal. The plant has been a Superfund ...
Elliott Bay Seawall
Seattle’s seawall represents how incredibly transient and unstable the city’s landscape has been for the last two centuries.
In the late nineteenth century local land speculators and railway companies filled in most of Seattle’s tidelands in order to make ...
Ballast Island
Ballast Island is an important site in both the history of Seattle’s global connections and the city’s Indigenous history. Unfortunately, the site is currently inaccessible due to construction on the new Seattleseawall.
In the nineteenth century, merchant ...
Blakely Rock
Blakely Rock is a diving site southeast of Eagle Harbor and approximately one mile north of Restoration Point. Visitors to the island can spot Blakely Rock from the ferry. The rock is identifiable from the large black and white navigational ...
Pioneer Building
The Pioneer Building is the product of a construction boom that followed the Great Fire of 1889. Its original owner, Henry Yesler, was one of Seattle’s first and most prominent white residents.
Henry Yesler of Ohio arrived in Seattle ...
Winslow Warf Marina/Hall Brothers Shipyard
Hall Brothers Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Company was once one of the best-known makers of wooden ships on the Pacific Coast. Located on the northern shore of Eagle Harbor, the former site of the shipyard is now the Winslow Wharf ...
