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Harbor Island is an artificial island in the mouth of the Duwamish River in Seattle, Washington, United States, where it empties into Elliott Bay. Built by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company , it was completed in 1909 and was then the largest artificial island in the world, at 350 acres (1.4 km 2 ). [ 1 ]
A 1967 water pollution study with data for 1963 refers to "Puget Sound Bridge & Drydock Co., Plant No. 1", with four piers, in what appears to be a list going counterclockwise around Harbor Island. [136] The City of Seattle Harbor Department Map of Central Waterfront District, February 1918, shows six piers. [95] 1945 US Navy aerial survey ...
The Lockheed Shipyard Operable Unit consisted of an 18-acre (73,000 m 2) shipyard facility located on the west side of Harbor Island at 2929 16th Avenue Southwest (Yard 1) and a 45-acre (180,000 m 2) shipyard on the North end of Terminal 5 at 2801 SW Florida St (Yard 2). The Lockheed Shipyard was a shipbuilding facility from the 1930s until 1988.
The Seattle–Winslow (Bainbridge Island) route is the most heavily used in the state ferry system in terms of number of vehicles and passengers transported. [17] The King County Water Taxi, a passenger ferry, runs across the bay, connecting Downtown Seattle with West Seattle (Seacrest Dock) and Vashon Island. [18]
Puget Sound (/ ˈ p juː dʒ ɪ t / PEW-jit; Lushootseed: x̌ʷəlč IPA: [ˈχʷəlt͡ʃ] WHULCH) [1] [2] is a complex estuarine [5] system of interconnected marine waterways and basins located on the northwest coast of the U.S. state of Washington.
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 heart of Seattle, largest city in the state of Washington, is on an isthmus between the city's chief harbor—the saltwater Elliott Bay (an inlet of Puget Sound)—and the fresh water of Lake Washington. Capitol Hill, First Hill, and Beacon Hill collectively constitute a ridge along this isthmus (see Seven hills of Seattle).
J. F. Duthie & Company was a small shipyard located on the east side of Harbor Island in Seattle, Washington.It was reportedly organized in 1911 (although there is no mention of it on the 1912 Baist map [1] at the location where the shipyard would be built) and expanded to 4 slipways on 25 acres (10 ha) of property [2] in World War I to build cargo ships for the United Kingdom, France and ...