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Eagle Harbor Superfund Site
The Pacific Creosoting Plant/Wyckoff Facility was formerly...
Panama Hotel
The Panama Hotel, located in Seattle’s International...
Sidewalk Prisms
The purple sidewalk prisms in the pavement around Pioneer ...
Elliott Bay Seawall
Seattle’s seawall represents how incredibly transien...
Ballast Island
Ballast Island is an important site in both the history of...
Chief Seattle Fountain/Little Crossing-Over Place
The Chief Seattle Fountain is a monument to the city&rsquo...
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...
Milepost 31
Milepost 31 is an information center and tribute to Seattl...
Nathan Jackson Whale Hatchover
The Puget Sound is the natural habitat of gray whales, min...
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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.
...Sidewalk Prisms
The purple sidewalk prisms in the pavement around Pioneer Square are an opportunity to observe Seattle’s changeable landscape. Much like theseawall, sidewalk prisms are tangible reminders of the ways that the city’s residents have altered the physical environment ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Milepost 31
Milepost 31 is an information center and tribute to Seattleites’ determination to change the topography of the land they live on. Milepost 31 educates visitors on the history of the city’s changeable landscape, from glaciers to tidelands,regrades, and ...
Nathan Jackson Whale Hatchover
The Puget Sound is the natural habitat of gray whales, minke whales, and orca—or killer—whales. This hatchover—or manhole cover—design at your feet (at the northwest corner of S Main St and 1st Ave S) featuring a whale in a Tlingit ...