Image: Seattle map 1909

Description: A map of Seattle in 1909, created by combining portions of the following public domain images: File:Souvenir guide of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition - held at Seattle, Washington, June 1st to October - Page 9.jpg File:Souvenir guide of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition - held at Seattle, Washington, June 1st to October - Page 11.jpg File:Souvenir guide of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition - held at Seattle, Washington, June 1st to October - Page 13.jpg File:Souvenir guide of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition - held at Seattle, Washington, June 1st to October - Page 15.jpg File:Souvenir guide of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition - held at Seattle, Washington, June 1st to October - Page 17.jpg File:Souvenir guide of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition - held at Seattle, Washington, June 1st to October - Page 19.jpg This map shows the historic locations of some neighborhoods whose names have fallen out of use in the century since: Ross between Ballard and Fremont Edgewater (roughly today's Wallingford) Brooklyn (today's University District) Renton Hill for part of what would today be considered part of First Hill (or, in its most easterly portion, part of the Central District) It also shows: A much longer Smith Cove (much of which was later filled), with the Great Northern Docks Lincoln Park for today's Cal Anderson Park The Moran Shipyard anchoring the south end of the Central Waterfront (now a container port) A somewhat loose map for Harbor Island (still under construction at the time) The size of the various lakes and freshwater bays before the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks lowered the water level The canal extending from the East Waterway near Spokane Street. The arrangement of streets between Lake Union and Capitol Hill before Interstate 5 came through.
Title: Seattle map 1909
Credit: Made by Joe Mabel, using images derived from Souvenir guide of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition - held at Seattle, Washington, June 1st to October
Author: Derivative work by Joe Mabel, using public domain images.
Permission: GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 for Joe Mabel's contribution; PD for underlying images. Also please use GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0 for my commentary about what the map shows that has since changed.
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
License Link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
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