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Lake Washington. / 47.617°N 122.267°W / 47.617; -122.267 ( Lake Washington) Lake Washington ( Lushootseed: x̌ačuʔ) [3] [a] is a large freshwater lake adjacent to the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. [4] It is the largest lake in King County and the second largest natural lake in the state of Washington, after Lake ...
Main article: Duwamish tribe. In the history of Seattle before white settlement, thirteen prominent villages existed in what is now the city of Seattle. The people living near Elliott Bay, and along the Duwamish, Black and Cedar Rivers were collectively known as the doo-AHBSH, or People of the Doo ("Inside"). Four prominent villages [1] existed ...
Lake Washington Ship Canal. / 47.64319; -122.33482. The Lake Washington Ship Canal is a canal that runs through the city of Seattle and connects the fresh water body of Lake Washington to the salt water inland sea of Puget Sound. The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks accommodate the approximately 20-foot (6.1 m) difference in water level between Lake ...
Ballard Locks. / 47.66556°N 122.39722°W / 47.66556; -122.39722. The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, or Ballard Locks, is a complex of locks at the west end of Salmon Bay in Seattle, Washington's Lake Washington Ship Canal, between the neighborhoods of Ballard to the north and Magnolia to the south. [2] : 2 [3] [4] : 6.
Green Lake (Lushootseed: dxʷƛ̕əš) is a freshwater lake in north central Seattle, Washington, within Green Lake Park.The park is surrounded by the Green Lake neighborhood to the north and east, the Wallingford neighborhood to the south, the Phinney Ridge neighborhood to the west, and Woodland Park to the southwest.
The Montlake Cut is the easternmost section of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, which passes through the city of Seattle, linking Lake Washington to Puget Sound. It opened in 1916 after 56 years of conversation and construction to create the manmade canal. The path along the cut was designated a National Recreation Trail as Montlake Cut National ...
June 1902 map proposing the Lake Washington Ship Canal shows streets and railways from that time. Smith Tower construction, February 1913 Capitol Hill c. 1917. The gold rush (see History of Seattle before 1900) led to massive immigration, with major arrivals of Japanese, Filipinos, immigrant Europeans, and European-Americans from back east.
Lake Union ( Lushootseed: x̌ax̌čuʔ) [3] [a] is a freshwater lake located entirely within the city limits of Seattle, Washington, United States. It is a major part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, which carries fresh water from the much larger Lake Washington on the east to Puget Sound on the west. The easternmost point of the lake is the ...