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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 ...
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Ballast Island
Historical Point of Interest
In this area once part of the bay, vessels from ports all over the world dumped their ballast. Untold thousands of tons were unloaded into the water by ship’s crews including 40,000 tons from San Francisco’s ...
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