Topic: Seattle Neighborhoods
The City of West Seattle was annexed to Seattle in 1907, in large measure to improve the community's access to sufficient water and other utilities. Even so, well more than two decades would pass befo...
A hub in Seattle's Central District for more than a century, the intersection of 23rd Avenue S and S Jackson Street has witnessed dramatic change over the years. The city's electric streetcar system m...
Since 1900 or so, Seattle boosters have praised the city's "seven hills" in a comparison with Rome, Italy. The number is arbitrary and does not accurately describe Seattle's topography of numerous hil...
When Seattle was founded in 1851, Lake Union was the backwater of a backwater town. A natural dam at Montlake sealed it off from Lake Washington, while only a tiny stream through Fremont drained it in...