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Yesler Way is an east–west street in Seattle named for Henry Yesler, the founder of Seattle. East–west streets in Seattle south of Yesler Way are prefixed "South"; [ 3 ] avenues are suffixed with "South" as they cross Yesler Way. [ 4 ]
Yesler arrived in Seattle from Ohio in 1852 [2] and built a steam-powered sawmill, which provided numerous jobs for those early settlers and Duwamish tribe members. The mill was located right on the Elliott Bay waterfront, at the foot of what is now known as Yesler Way [1] and was then known as Mill Road or the "Skid Road," so named for the practice of "skidding" greased logs down the steep ...
Yesler's property at 3 of the 4 corners of 1st and Yesler had stood in the way of these changes, and Yesler, being the frugal and stubborn man he was refused to surrender an inch of right of way. To firmly cement his property lines in 1883 he had one of Seattle's grandest buildings built on the corner that the city wanted to cut through, the ...
The Central District's main thoroughfares includes its east boundary along Martin Luther King Jr. Way ("MLK"), its west boundaries along 12th Avenue and Rainier Avenue, and its 'main street' 23rd Avenue (north and southbound). Major east–west streets in the neighborhood include E. Union, E. Cherry, E. Jefferson, E. Yesler Way, and S. Jackson.
Typical Yesler Terrace houses (2006) Yesler Terrace is located on the southernmost part of First Hill, along Yesler Way immediately east of downtown Seattle. Uphill across Interstate 5 from Pioneer Square and the International District. Much of the site included Nihonmachi or Japantown until Executive Order 9066 ordered residents to be interned.
The history of human activity on what is now Seattle's Central Waterfront predates the settlement that became the city of Seattle. The Duwamish had a winter village of approximately 8 longhouses roughly at the intersection of First Avenue South and Yesler Way. With about 200 people, it was one of the most sizable villages along Elliott Bay.
1st Avenue is called "Seattle's oldest thoroughfare". [2]Seattle's original street system was a misaligned grid created by three of the original settlers. Today's 1st Avenue was Front Street north of Yesler in Arthur A. Denny's plat, and Commercial Street to its south in Doc Maynard's. [3]
Pioneer Square–Skid Road Historic District. This map also shows how Second Avenue Extension continues a piece of the north-of-Yesler street grid into the area south of Yesler Way. (The map dates from before the Kingdome was replaced by two new stadiums.) Pioneer Square is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of Downtown Seattle, Washington, US.