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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...