On July 24, 1907, the City of Seattle annexes the City of West Seattle. The Seattle City Council passes ordinance 16558 that increases the city's area by nearly one-third, adding 16.34 square miles. The Town of West Seattle incorporated in April 1902 and grew by its own annexations in 1904 (when it became a city) and in 1907.
The annexation was the second-largest to that point for Seattle. The city had annexed a slightly larger area (16.94 sq. miles) in 1891 that stretched from Magnolia Bluff past Green Lake to Lake Union.
West Seattle's boundaries were: on the south by SW Roxbury Street, east by 1st Avenue S and north and west by Elliott Bay and Puget Sound. In October 1907 the Seattle City Council renamed the streets of West Seattle.
Sources:
Myra L. Phelps and Leslie Blanchard, Public Works in Seattle: A Narrative History. The Engineering Department 1875 - 1975 (Seattle, Seattle Engineering Department, 1978), 218, 222, 224, 232.
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