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The University District (commonly the U District) is a neighborhood and a major district in central northeastern Seattle, Washington, comprising several distinct neighborhoods. The main campus of the University of Washington (UW) is located in the district, lending its name to both the district as well as University Way NE (commonly The Ave ).
This 1909 map of Seattle shows many neighborhood names that remain in common use today—for example, Ballard, Fremont, Queen Anne Hill, Capitol Hill, West Seattle, and Beacon Hill—but also many that have fallen out of use—for example, "Ross" and "Edgewater" on either side of Fremont, "Brooklyn" for today's University District, and "Renton Hill" near the confluence of Capitol Hill, First ...
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Talbert, Paul (1 May 2006). "SkEba'kst: The Lake People and Seward Park". The History of Seward Park. SewardPark.org. Archived from the original on 14 December 2005 "University District". Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas. Office of the Seattle City Clerk. June 2002
Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History. An extensive project directed by University of Washington professor James Gregory; University of Washington Libraries: Digital Collections: Photographic collections grouped by subject; Vintage Seattle: Blog featuring collections of high resolution images from Seattle's past.
Erroneous signage for "University Avenue NE" at the intersection with NE 41st Street (2008) University Way Northeast, colloquially The Ave (no period; [2] pronounced /æv/), is a major street and commercial district in the University District of Seattle, Washington, located near the University of Washington (UW) campus.
A very early Seattle history, Frederic James Grant, History of Seattle, Washington with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, American Publishing and Engraving Co., 1891, is also online at Google Books although a few pages are poorly scanned. p. 362 et. seq. looks like a pretty good account of early ...
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Because the University of Washington campus is open, its impact on the University District as well as the rest of the city was quite significant; "In remaining a largely commuter school, the university has diminished its ability to withdraw as a community in itself and has maintained thereby its ability to the larger and more amorphous community."