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 ...

Panama Hotel

The Panama Hotel, located in Seattle’s International District and what was once the heart of the city’s Nihonmachi, or Japantown, is historically significant for its roles in the early twentieth century Japanese immigrant community and Japanese Internment in the 1940s.

Chief Seattle Fountain/Little Crossing-Over Place

The Chief Seattle Fountain is a monument to the city’s namesake, Duwamish Chief Seeathl (also spelled Si'ahl). It is also a reminder that before this place was Seattle—and long before it was Pioneer Park Place as you see ...

“Haiku no Niwa,” Japanese Haiku Garden

Under Executive Order 9066, thousands of people of Japanese ancestry on the Pacific Coast of the United States were incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. The first 227 victims in the country were removed from Bainbridge Island on ...

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 ...

Pike Place Fish Market

The Pike Place Fish Market, owned since 1965 by John Yokoyama, is has become a tourist attraction for the way its staff sings and throws fish. Over time, the company has come to live up to the “world famous” claim ...