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Bell Street Terminal, circa 1915 South Lander Street facilities on the East Waterway of the Duwamish, circa 1915 Hooverville on the Seattle tideflats, 1933 Pier 69, the present-day Headquarters for the Port of Seattle. The Port of Seattle is a public agency that is in King County, Washington.
Seattle is a major port city that has a history of boom and bust. Seattle has on several occasions been sent into severe decline, but has typically used those periods to successfully rebuild infrastructure. There have been at least five such cycles: The lumber-industry boom, followed by the construction of an Olmsted-designed park system.
The Great White Fleet visits Seattle and Puget Sound area. [22] 1909 June 1: Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition opens. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad begins operating. [3] 1910 Georgetown becomes part of city. [3] Municipal League of Seattle founded. [23] Population: 237,194. [2] 1911 – Port of Seattle established. [24] 1913
The Port of Seattle had come to own most of the over-water structures on the Central Waterfront, but for the most part such shipping traffic as Seattle retained was using other piers and docks. [97] Furthermore, construction of the Alaskan Way Viaduct in the early 1950s placed a visual barrier and a partial physical barrier between much of the ...
The new Port of Seattle (formed 1911) built Fishermen's Terminal about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north on Salmon Bay and paid the Great Northern US$150,000 for the docks and approximately 20 acres (8.1 ha) of land at Smith's Cove. At Smith's Cove they developed two new coal and lumber piers, Pier 40 and 41 (renumbered in 1941 as Piers 90 and 91).
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The effort by the Port of Seattle to verbally rebrand Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as “S-E-A” instead of “Sea-Tac” should be resisted. The City of Tacoma paid $100,000 toward the ...
The Port of Seattle came into existence on September 5, 1911, by a vote of the people of the Port District. One of the biggest factors that swayed the votes in favor of creating the port was the prospect of economic growth. However, port construction did not begin until 1913 with the creation of a home port for the local fishermen.